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...latest set of twists, the Massachusetts Bay Transport Authority (MBTA) announced that it intends to seize the 47 acres on which the railyard sits through “eminent domain,” giving $33 million in compensation, rather than see the land sold to Harvard. In response, State Sen. Jarrett T. Barrios ’90-’91—who represents both Cambridge and Allston—pledged to introduce legislation preventing seizure of the land by the MBTA. He has called upon Harvard and the MBTA to work together to ensure adequate transportation planning...
State agencies must use their powers of eminent domain wisely and justly. In this case, the MBTA must act with intelligence and foresight. This property should be sold to Harvard, with full guarantee that the public interests will be preserved...
Introducing special legislation to return the land to Chinatown will likely lead other neighborhoods to push for their own entitlements and compensations. Approving the bill would set a bad precedent for eminent domain and also lead to an uncoordinated building effort for downtown Boston—a veritable planning disaster...
...Eminent domain is an important power that citizens allow the government to exercise for the common good, but with this power comes special responsibility to use discretion in planning and protecting particularly vulnerable communities. Boston’s cheating of its Chinatown residents needs to be remedied, but financial compensation, rather than disruption of the urban planning process, is the more equitable solution...
Just under a week before the Turnpike Authority’s chair planned to officially sign the papers and hand over the deed to Harvard, on Thursday the Massachusetts Bay Transport Authority (MBTA) informed the Turnpike of their intent to seize the land through “eminent domain,” a rarely-used government power to forcibly buy land deemed in the public interest...