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...members of the Cambridge City Council and the trustees of the Metropolitan Transit Authority had dinner together Monday night, and incidentally, discussed the forthcoming sale of the MTA's Bennett St. yards...
...meeting was arranged by the Council in order to insure that the city's interests would be protected when the MTA disposes of the 12-acre site, located on Boylston St. across from Kirkland and Eliot Houses...
Councillor Bernard Goldberg described the meeting as "harmonious", and said that the MTA trustees had promised to consider the City's interests in selling the property...
After the Council meeting DeGuglielmo said that the City had no legal right to take the property from the MTA, and that in his opinion a private purchaser should be able to do what he wants with the land. DeGuglielmo said that if the University were to devote two thirds of the 12-acre site for tax-producing purposes--as was suggested by L. Gard Wiggins, administrative vice-President, last week--"I think they'd be treating us damn fine...
...motion which the Council passed was much milder than the demands heard previously in the Council that the City seize the MTA yards by eminent domain to keep Harvard from getting them. Speaking in favor of his motion, Hayes cited legal opinion that such a seizure would be illegal...