Word: expansionism
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The Cambridge Community Development Department (CDD) will overrule objections from local universities, including Harvard, and propose a tough ordinance to sharply limit institutional expansion into residential neighborhoods, city officials said yesterday.
The overlay boundaries--lines around current concentrations of institutional development outside of which expansion into residential neighborhoods would be close to impossible-- "would cause more problems than they will solve." Lewis Armistead. Harvard's assistant vice-president for government and community relations said yesterday.
But area residents, afraid that deletion of the overlay lines would water down the proposal and make institutional expansion easier, agreed at a meeting early last week that they would insist on the districts.
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