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...1960s, it was the effect of enrollment expansion that the community was worried about," Brewer said, adding "people were worried that the new students were putting a real pressure on the local housing market...
When plateauing enrollments practically eliminated that problem in the early part of this decade, Brewer said, concern shifted to "actual physical expansion by the institutions--the new libraries and classrooms, and the landbanking." The 1972 and 1975 "Red Line" boundaries on University expansion helped ease those tensions, Brewer maintains, saying "we have been pretty faithful to those community reports...
...land Harvard owns that worries people, Brewer says. Instead, he points out, there is more tension surrounding what the University plans to do with land is acquires. Residents are worried that their Harvard-owned apartments may someday turn into offices, basketball courts or DNA labs...
...starting to see real concern about these issues," Brewer says, adding that he doubts the University is bent on hell-for-leather growth. "New fields of study will open up over the years, and a few of the schools may grow. That may mean putting up some new buildings and renovating some old ones, but the growth won't ever be anything of the same magnitude we saw 15 years ago," he said. The community is also concerned about the danger University growth might pose to access to rental housing among Cantabrigians of "all income mixes," Brewer said. "The character...
Dealing with community pressure--responding to angry neighbors--has become a large part of the job of the community relations office in the last few years. Controversy has marked Brewer's year on the job, from the furor over a wall near the Church Street Garage, to the leasing of a building across the "Red Line" on Ware St., to the messy eviction of tenants from 7 Sumner...