Word: neighborhooding
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...providing a 25-year picture of its development plans in Agassiz, Harvard responded to the common complaint from neighborhood residents that the University proposes building projects one at a time, without offering any insight into its long-term vision...
Despite the ultimately successful resolutions, the process of arriving at agreements was not always smooth in either neighborhood...
...Agassiz, Harvard officials met with four representatives who negotiated on behalf of the neighborhood, and at several community meetings throughout the process, other residents raised concerns about their lack of direct involvement...
...similar negotiating structure fell apart two years ago in Mid-Cambridge when residents objected to Harvard’s proposal to build a tunnel underneath Cambridge Street to connect the two halves of its new Center for Government and International Studies. A team of neighborhood, University and city representatives reached a tentative accord that would have allowed Harvard to build the tunnel in exchange for community benefits. But a neighborhood negotiating representative pulled out at the last minute because he said he was not given the chance to bring the agreement to the other residents for approval...
...felt very strongly and stated it often throughout the process that we needed to go back to the neighborhood,” says Agassiz resident Miriam Goldberg, one of the members of the ACID negotiating team. “My understanding is that we did that in as many ways as we could...When you work with the community there will always be some individuals who feel they were not heard enough...