Word: riverfronts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Diana K. McGuire, landscape architect for the University, said yesterday that other projects the committee is working on include the planting of more trees and grass along the campus riverfront and designing, with the House committees, the layout and planting of house gardens...
Marcy, who recently dropped off the Grass Roots Organization (GRO) slate, is also battling the developers who are buying and building "in some perverse celebration of 1976 where they're going to turn the riverfront into a Miami Beach," and the universities, whose moratorium on land-buying will soon expire...
...Ecology--The Charles River and its shores, just beginning to recover some of their lost beauty, will be crowded by tourists munching fried food. Furthermore, the building of prime riverfront real estate to accomodate library visitors will block the community from its rightful access to the Charles...
...proposed hotel, ranging in height from 6 to 15 stories and timed to capitalize on the tourist influx accompanying the Kennedy Library's completion, is not objectionable in and of itself, but because it would violate the proposed new Riverfront zone...
That new zone is important for two reasons. First, it would encourage additional moderate and low-income housing. Secondly, it would give the community more control over the future of the riverfront, guaranteeing neighborhood access to the Charles...