Word: palmer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dietz paraded an architect, a former State Representative from Cambridge, and a landscaping architect before the City Council, which voted 4-4 on the Harvard Cooperative Society's petition for a bridge over Palmer St. A two-thirds vote was required...
...then the Council decided to recommit the petition to the Finance Committee, and the whole process of hearings and arguments between the Coop and Dietz, who is a part owner of a building on Palmer St., probably will begin again...
Dietz has contended that the bridge will block air and light on Palmer St. and make it a second-rate pedestrian way. The Coop has contended that the bridge is necessary for customer and supply flow between its two buildings...
However, Dietz's architect, Joseph L. Eldredge '49, contended that the value of the Harvard Square area is its pleasant, little side streets" and that the Coop should work to improve Palmer St., not destroy it by building the bridge...
...City Council will vote today to approve or disapprove plans of the Harvard Cooperative Society for a bridge over Palmer St. linking the second and third story of its new textbook annex to the main building. The bridge has been vehemently opposed by Sheldon Dietz '41, a local property owner...