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A proposal currently before the council, sponsored by East Harvard Square resident Terry Crystal, would severely restrict development rights on land in the vicinity of the station, cutting the maximum allowable floor area ratio (FAR) from 3.0 to 1.75, and imposing a 45-foot height limit on buildings covered by...
Crystal submitted her petition to the council after the University announced plans to build a five-story, "limited-service" hotel on the site. But the hotel project was sidetracked when members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences objected, saying the land should be used for a library or faculty...
The hotel project is on hold, but the University has filed an objection to the Crystal petition. Associate Direcate Director for Urban Planning Marilyn Lyng O'Connell said that despite a series of amendments weakening the petition, it would still impose sever limits on Harvard's development rights.
So does Jerry Williams, 65, a cantankerous veteran of more than 30 years of talk shows and a fixture at WRKO in Boston since 1981. A onetime liberal who now calls himself a populist, Williams often had Malcolm X as a guest during the '60s; today he spends much of...
Walsh told the council that he had spoken with Yanow, but that he was waiting for a reply to a letter he had sent to the community development department before making up his mind on the petition.