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...additional land provided by Harvard in the latest draft allowed planners to reduce the total number of units on the site while increasing the number of actual buildings, replacing several larger, multi-unit buildings with smaller structures. Jacques says the development’s height and density, which had been one of the main concerns in the original plan, will now be comparable to those of its surrounding neighborhood...
...solution, some residents argue, is for the University to allow development on more of its Allston land holdings adjacent to the proposed Charlesview site—much of which currently sits vacant or has no explicit future institutional purpose. But Harvard has largely shied away from directly commenting on or involving itself in the planning process, preferring to allow the Community Builders and the City to wrangle over details...
...University spokeswoman Lauren Marshall, when asked whether Harvard is open to the possibility of providing more land for development or if it had other institutional designs for those plots, wrote in an e-mailed statement that the University has “had a productive discussion with Charlesview Inc.” and “remains respectful of the public review process that is underway...
...everyone believes that more land is the solution...
...It’s easy to point to Harvard and say give more land, but maybe the Community Builders should try to develop this land in a different way,” says Paul Berkeley, president of the Allston Civic Association. “There’s no one person that holds...