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THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES: The toll from Alzheimer?s continues to mount. Since 1975, the number of Americans afflicted with the disease has jumped from 500,000 to 5 million. Over the next fifty years, an estimated 80-100 million people worldwide will succumb to Alzheimer?s. On September 4...
In a meeting Monday night, the Cambridge City Council moved toward an eight month extension of a moratorium on development in Cambridge’s Riverside neighborhood that was designed to prevent Harvard from going forward on its plans to build a new art museum.
Several council members stated general support for the proposal. Councilor Kathleen L. Born said that the moratorium extension would likely return to the council’s agenda for final adoption in December.
According to a Harvard representative, the University has no opposition to the requested extension, particularly because it would not be ready to begin construction on the art museum when the moratorium currently expires in April.
Riverside residents now said that because the city took eight months to establish the committee after the moratorium’s adoption, the time lost should be added as an extension.