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...UNWRITTEN PACTThere’s an “unwritten pact” between the University and the community that retailers will be allowed to use the ground-floor space in Harvard-owned buildings, according to Pebble Gifford, the vice president of the Harvard Square Defense Fund (HSDF), a volunteer organization founded in 1979 that works to preserve the character of Harvard Square.According to Gifford, the “biggest battle” with the University is maintaining the pact.When the University built the new library building on Mt. Auburn Street, across the street from the Garage, the original plan...
...night, the Cambridge City Council and Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves ’72 gave a long-awaited nudge to the Cambridge Licensing Commission (CLC) in favor of loosening its Puritanical rules. For the past two decades, the CLC and its ally-in-arms, the Harvard Square Defense Fund (HSDF), have implemented draconian policies toward restaurants’ closing hours and their ability to serve liquor. Thankfully, Reeves and the city councillors seem to have awoken to the damaging effect those policies have had on the Square’s atmosphere and liveliness. Councillor Michael A. Sullivan told the roundtable...
Panico says he is unsure if the franchise owner, Mark Jestis, will ever apply again for a later license. However, if this were to happen, the Harvard Square Defense Fund (HSDF), a group of concerned citizens who work to preserve Harvard Square’s independent businesses and community atmosphere, would spring into action...
...policy of the defense fund has always been to oppose licenses after 2 a.m. This would be no exception,” says Jinny Nathans, President of the HSDF...
...HSDF Vice-President G. Pebble Gifford writes in an e-mail that thanks to Cambridge’s fast food zoning ordinance and its strict regulations involving litter and disturbance issues, most national fast food chains have not tried to enter Harvard Square...