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Harvard has owned a site by the Charles, currently home to Mahoney??€™s Garden Center, for decades...
They also set up a study committee, comprised of residents and a Harvard representative, and charged it with recommending new zoning for the site. At the time, zoning for Mahoney??€™s permitted buildings up to 85 feet tall...
...deserve no less blame for the persistent bad blood as they continue to obstruct Harvard’s projects at every turn, even when the initiatives will cause little harm. In an effort to thwart Harvard’s planned art museum, the Riverside Study Committee recommended rezoning the Mahoney??€™s site with a prohibitively low height limit of 24 feet on any future construction. An art museum would not be as disruptive as Peabody Terrace, and Riverside residents would serve their own interests best by working with the University to modify existing proposals to address their concerns?...
...light of this history, it is not surprising that residents have reacted angrily to the University’s plan to build a modern art museum or additional housing at the location of Mahoney??€™s Garden Center on Memorial Drive. Although the residents have legitimate concerns that the University take their views into account, the recent proposal by the Riverside Study Committee to rezone the Mahoney??€™s site is an irresponsible threat on the neighborhood’s part. The committee was created by the city council last spring to help Harvard and local residents work...
Meanwhile, community representatives urged their neighbors to go to city meetings and push the city to take the Mahoney??€™s property with “eminent domain...