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Harvard’s ongoing uncertainty about the pace of its Allston expansion—specifically the future of the much-anticipated science complex—was met by community frustration at last night’s Allston-Brighton neighborhood task force meeting.Residents demanded that Harvard follow through on its promise of community benefits and implement them quickly, regardless of possible changes to the Institutional Master Plan that lays out the University’s proposals for expansion. Chief University Planner Kathy A. Spiegelman said that the troubled economic climate is forcing the University to analyze all capital projects...
...officials had hoped that the Brighton expansion would allow BC to become the first major college in the city of Boston to house all undergraduates on campus, a move that they say will reduce neighborhood complaints of disruptive student behavior...
...added that college students tend to be “boisterous” by nature and keep late hours, which she said she feared would be “disruptive for the neighborhood...
...Denis Minihane, a Brighton resident and a member of the BC Task Force, said that a dormitory expansion would bring economic benefits and “young, inquisitive minds” to Brighton. He added that concerns about neighborhood disruptions were overblown, and that “some of the most vocal [opponents of BC’s expansion plans] don’t even live close to the neighborhood...
...Schuster, who lives in one of the state's most densely populated areas, she says she's not sure when life will return to normal. On Sunday, the traffic lights in her neighborhood were not working (she's seen several drivers fail to stop at intersections) and she had not been to work in a week (she was told by her clinic to remain at home, rather than risk the icy, treacherous drive into work). That's the same message that went out to Louisville's public school students; classes for the remainder of last week were called...