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...member of the Cambridge City Council yesterday urged that the city act to acquire the Bennett St. MTA Yards under the Urban Renewal Act because "there is now nothing to prevent Harvard University from grabbing all the land for educational purposes...
Hayes said that he hopes the Redevelopment Authority will declare the MTA Yards an Open Blighted Area, but admitted that such a ruling, the only one under which Cambridge could legally acquire the land, "may not be possible to obtain...
Another factor which will influence the trustees toward accepting Pusey's offer is a recently completed engineering study which definitely confirms the possibility of replacing the MTA repair facilities at Bennett St. with facilities at other sites...
...sale of this particular tract to Harvard would have the opposite effect on revenue, Pusey pointed out in his statement, because as MTA property it is now completely tax-exempt; however, if the land were sold, some of it would be put to taxable...
Since 1953 there have been at least two bills entered in the state legislature every year which would have blocked the sale, even if both the MTA and Harvard wished to transfer the land. This year, however, no such bills have been recorded...