Word: parcelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Anninger said it was one of those other projects, a residential, office and retail complex proposed for the property known as Parcel 1b, which provided the key to the University Place design process. Parcel 1b, which is bordered by Boylston St. and Memorial Drive and is next door to the University Place site, had originally been planned as the home of the John F. Kennedy Library until neighborhood opposition forced the memorial out of the city...
...last year, however, community representatives worked closely with Carpenter and Co. of Boston to arrive at a design for Parcel 1b that would be economically viable for the developers and aesthetically acceptable to neighbors. "Parcel 1b started out with a very adversarial relationship between residents and developers," Anninger said, "but the design review process improved dramatically and was then used as a model for University Place. "If anything, Parcel 1b was the breakthrough for residents, because it gave Harvard and other developers an example showing that a project will come out better with a design review collaboration than...
...plans represent the best of an undesirable lot. "It that's the way the cookie was going to crumble, this plan probably will cause the least problems," Olive Holmes, president of the Harvard Square Defense Fund, said. "This project will serve as a buffer and feather out disturbances from Parcel 1b," which will be built at about the same time as University Place, Holmes added...
...next year on Mt. Auburn St. The citizens' advisory committee appears ready to put its official stamp of approval on the plans, and because of minimal zoning requirements for the area, the city planning board will not be able to stall the project, as it did with proposals for Parcel 1b. All that Harvard needs now from the city is an ordinary building permit...
...episode proves one thing we have long maintained--it is in Harvard's interest to cooperate with the community. The University knew that the Harvard Square Defense Fund and other groups had brought the private developers of nearby Parcel 1b to their knees with a series of lawsuits; the parking lot development promised to be a case of similar cooperate-from-the-start or fight-it-out-to-the-bitter-end. Working together--financially and psychologically--is almost always less costly. And the compromises reached are usually about the same as would result from an adversarial proceeding...