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Inside the overlay districts, some expansion into residential neighborhoods is allowed, but in most cases only with a special permit. Expansion into residential neighborhoods outside the districts is "very, very tough," Vickery said...
...director David Vickery said yesterday the proposed ordinance would be filed with the City Council next Monday, and would include "institutional overlay" district boundaries that have drawn criticism from the universities in recent weeks...
...overlay boundaries--lines around current concentrations of institutional development outside of which expansion into residential neighborhoods would be close to impossible-- "would cause more problems than they will solve." Lewis Armistead. Harvard's assistant vice-president for government and community relations said yesterday...
Armistead said city residents might perceive the overlay districts as tight borders, even though institutions are free to expand into non-residential districts. "Lines taken on a totally different meaning than what they were drawn for," he added...
...area residents, afraid that deletion of the overlay lines would water down the proposal and make institutional expansion easier, agreed at a meeting early last week that they would insist on the districts...