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The neighbors’ list of demands—dubbed the Carlson petition after its chief proponent, local filmmaker Cob Carlson—call for primarily residential zoning and serious height restrictions, including a limit of 20 to 24 feet on a controversial, Harvard-owned plot. The University hopes to...
The planning board had to re-hear the Carlson petition after the City Council did not act on it within its six month deliberation period.
“The planning board petition spits on the history of the neighborhood,” Carlson said. Residents said the board was being insensitive to neighborhood concerns, a criticism traditionally reserved for Harvard.
In a 14-minute presentation—one Riverside resident timed—Harvard also expressed its frustration with the planning board petition, saying that it seriously impeded its ability to develop projects that could prove beneficial to the neighborhood.
“Both [petitions] limit our ability to create housing, and in doing that, limit our ability to create affordable housing,” said Mary H. Power, senior director of community relations. Yet the board ultimately voted almost without comment to resubmit its own petition.