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Harvard currently provides housing to 97 percent of its 6,650 undergraduates. Only 200 Harvard undergraduates live off campus in non-affiliated housing, according to the 2001 Cambridge town-gown report...
Harvard’s intention to build a three-story modern art museum in the middle of the Riverside residential community shows that town-gown problems are not always the fault of over-zealous neighborhood activists. Harvard often errs on the side of too much development at inopportune times with seemingly arbitrary reasoning. The current plan, which would bring an estimated 700 visitors at peak times to visit a three-story museum that houses approximately 80 parking spaces for 170 staff members, shows that Harvard has made little effort to accommodate neighbors’ concerns...
...vice president for government and community affairs. There is also new leadership in the city. Only two of Cambridge’s city councillors have served more than seven years. With the creation of a new Committee on University Relations, the current council has put town-gown issues near the top of its agenda...
...reason the Allston purchase probably will not ease town-gown tensions is that Harvard’s ambitions for major facilities currently planned for Cambridge will, if they are realized, produce a campus building boom of a scale not seen since at least the 1960s. Things will not even improve after the Allston land is integrated into the campus if the University’s plan includes a major reconfiguration of its Cambridge campus. Large-scale renovations can be almost as disruptive as new development...
...second reason the Allston purchase will not be a cure-all for town-gown tensions is that it actually worsens a more serious problem that has nothing to do with construction. It further erodes the bonds of community association between the University and its neighbors in Cambridge...