Word: parcelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...late '60s, MIT bought about 40 acres of relatively undeveloped land in East Cambridge from the Simplex Wire and Cable Company, and in the last 10 years the school has been slowly buying up property adjacent to the original parcel. Much of this land was purchased from small industries or residents who were forced to leave...
...city, again in search of tax revenues, has already approved the plans for the complex; now local citizens have carried their fight to have the project shrunk to the state level. All agree that Parcel 1B will be developed, but some residents say they've learned their lesson. A campaign to downzone Mass Ave between Harvard and Central Sques is under way, and the recently passed Harvard Square zoning overlay may, by limiting building heights, discourage large-scale facilities. "I don't think the chicness really appeals to the average person who lives in Cambridge, certainly not to the average...
...development controversy is symbolized by the fight over Parcel 1B. The planned multimillion-dollar complex will feature retail shopping, restaurants, a movie theater, offices and housing--enough of each so that some environmental impact reports estimate traffic flow in Harvard Square could double at times ("After a certain point," Sullivan notes, "traffic flow ceases to be a meaningful term...
Conventional radar stations on which Tornado Alley still depends are capable of picking up certain telltale signs that can presage tornadoes, including so-called hook echoes-reflections from areas of heavy precipitation surrounding a rotating parcel of air. But they cannot detect actual movement within the storm. By contrast, Doppler radar not only measures the direction of air flows, but actually clocks the speeds of raindrops and ice particles as they are whirled about in a brewing tornado...
...bill, which would have allowed the developer of Parcel 1B, located next to the Harvard Motor House off Brattle Sq., to bypass some state and local reviews, "is dead for now," a source on the committee said yesterday...