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About 7,000 people signed the group’s petition, according to campaign director Karen Hoerst. Of those signatures, almost 5,000 were certified by the city’s Election Commission.
The city council can also vote before Sept. 30 to send the petition directly to the State House without putting it on the ballot.
Several members of the council said yesterday that they did not support the petition, saying it was better to focus on other affordable housing programs than to debate a petition that is unlikely to pass at the state level.
The planning board has introduced its own petition with more moderate restrictions on Harvard building.
Both Harvard and the residents however, dismissed the planning board petition as unsatisfactory, and few councillors mentioned it yesterday evening.