Word: mcncdc
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Mired for three years in community meetings and protest, the Cambridge Mid-Cambridge Neighborhood Conservation District Commission (MCNCDC) at last gave the building the green light to proceed in September...
...spent an exhausting 35 hours before [the MCNCDC]. The architect completely redesigned the project midway. So far, the community's involvement has yielded a better project, much more distinguishing from the former design," Zewinsky says...
Zewinski says the project has not progressed through Cambridge's complicated regulatory maze since the MCNCDC granted its approval. "[The Knafel Center] is by far the most complicated regulatory project I've dealt with," he says...
...relations between the University and Cambridge residents have never been golden. Unfortunately, they have been weakened again in recent years regarding Harvard's proposed designs for the Knafel Center. Prior to last Monday, neighbors to the proposed site and board members of the Mid-Cambridge Neighborhood Conservation District Commission (MCNCDC) had spent years criticizing the plan for the building's massive size and its un-aesthetic design and pleading with Harvard to change its mind...
...MCNCDC was expected to hand down their final decision on the project--Harvard placed its priority on the Cambridge community rather than the center's construction by presenting a newly redesigned center. We commend the University for their decision to submit new Knafel center design plans to the MCNCDC that take the city and the residents of Cambridge--and not just the University--into consideration...