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...meeting at the Honan Allston Branch of the Boston Public Library, task force members cited issues concerning parking, commuting, truck queueing, and noise that would significantly impact the community once construction begins...
According to Exelon Associates, the company that analyzed the correlation between noise impact and fence height, increasing the height by six feet will cause the construction-related damage per second to decrease by three units...
According to the Draft Project Impact Report, Harvard has petitioned the city to get rid of about 50 parking spaces along Western Avenue to make way for the trucks that will carry away the soil from the excavation on the construction site. Approximately 2,000 cubic yards per day will be removed, which will require between 100 and 150 trucks to come to the site daily, depending on the remoteness of the dump site that the contractors will eventually pick...
...volunteer work and sightseeing, is generating almost as much praise and criticism as the goodwill ambassador herself. Are volunteer vacations--which have become so mainstream that CheapTickets recently started letting online customers book volunteer activities along with their vacations--merely overpriced guilt trips with an impact as fleeting as the feel-good factor? Or do they offer individuals a real chance to change the world, one summer jaunt at a time...
Sally Brown, founder of Ambassadors for Children, counters that every bit helps. "If a kid can be held for a couple of days," she says, "you're able to make a small difference." Other tour operators stress that voluntourism really does have lasting impact because, despite rapid turnover among individual volunteers, trip organizers develop long-term relationships with community partners. On one of her first group trips to El Salvador in 2001, explains Nancy Rivard, who founded Airline Ambassadors to expand on relief work she began as a flight attendant for American Airlines, volunteers helped 150 families acquire land...