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...property that has appreciated faster than Pets.com in 1998. For a man who has lived a stone’s throw from Leverett House for some time, he is surprisingly uncomfortable with Harvard and its community. Indeed, this Cob Carlson even had his own plan to severely restrict the extent and density of Harvard development—the aptly-named Carlson petition. But what his signs don’t say is that it is plans like his that keep property prices so high...
...University as a greedy, corporate land-gobbler, there is actually one group that stands to lose more as a result of the NIMBY stance than Harvard. Young families looking for housing in the Boston area are in an extraordinary squeeze as more and more city governments choose to restrict the level and extent of development across the Northeast...
...activists like Carlson have a tough choice. They can either restrict development and make it impossible for anyone except financial-district Yuppies to buy a house or they can allow development and ensure that Cambridge grows larger and more dense but stays affordable and diverse. By choosing the latter, Cambridge residents are likely to do well by subdividing their land and redeveloping it, which will probably turn out to be as profitable or more so than strangling the local property market...
...restrict the type of campaigning,” said Election Commission Chair David I. Monteiro...
...Harvard’s properties in the Riverside community of Cambridge are up in the air yet again—this time literally. Tonight or next Monday, the Cambridge City Council will vote on the Carlson Petition, a rezoning petition pushed for by residents of Riverside that would restrict Harvard development to buildings of 24 feet or less on a highly-contested Riverside site. The current height limit is 120 feet...