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City Councillors Sheila T. Russell and William H. Walsh said yesterday that they met with Bok last month to discuss the Crystal petition. Russell said that she urged Bok to hold more open discussion with the city on its real estate ventures...
...proposal currently before the council, sponsored by East Harvard Square resident Terry Crystal, would severely restrict development rights on land in the vicinity of the station, cutting the maximum allowable floor area ratio (FAR) from 3.0 to 1.75, and imposing a 45-foot height limit on buildings covered by the petition. FAR is the ratio of the total floor area of a building to the area of the property on which it sits...
...Crystal submitted her petition to the council after the University announced plans to build a five-story, "limited-service" hotel on the site. But the hotel project was sidetracked when members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences objected, saying the land should be used for a library or faculty office space...
...hotel project is on hold, but the University has filed an objection to the Crystal petition. Associate Direcate Director for Urban Planning Marilyn Lyng O'Connell said that despite a series of amendments weakening the petition, it would still impose sever limits on Harvard's development rights...
Although Harvard officials say they have no concrete plans for the site at the present time, O'Connell said yesterday that Harvard does not approve of the zoning changes proposed in Crystal's petition...