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...Charlesview Redevelopment, a proposed housing complex to be built southwest of Harvard’s planned Allston campus, is nearing BRA approval after years of delays. But neighborhood activists are attacking the plan, saying that it squeezes too much onto too little land. They are calling on Harvard to commit more of its area landholdings to the project—property not designated for any future institutional use—and say that the University will only acquiesce at the Mayor’s request...
Menino, a 16-year-incumbent with de facto control of the BRA, is known for his extensive clout in the City’s planning and development. A recent feature in the Boston Globe, noting that Menino’s support is often crucial to a project’s success, stated that “perhaps nowhere else in the nation, has a mayor obsessed so mightily, and wielded power so exhaustively” over such matters...
Thus, with Allston languishing in the wake of Harvard’s expansionary slowdown and neighborhood planning plagued by constant antagonism, some activists have shifted their attentions to the Mayor and BRA. But residents say the City has been unresponsive to community needs and that the only solution may be drastic, fundamental reform of the system...
...most important thing we need to do is to dismantle the BRA,” said Natasha Perez, a spokeswoman for City Councilor Michael F. Flaherty, Jr., Menino’s challenger. “We need separate planning agencies: one focused on planning and one on economic development and workforce development. What tends to happen is that in the rush for economic development, planning and communities are steamrolled...
...City planners maintain that the BRA’s structure is effective and that it has had a successful track record. Susan Elsbree, a BRA spokeswoman, said in an interview with The Crimsom that planners have been working “tirelessly” in Allston and that “it simply wasn’t true” that community input was being ignored. “To suggest that we’ve not been doing enough to plan and hold Harvard’s feet to the fire is ridiculous,” she said...