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Urban planner Sam Seidel, a 39-year-old candidate for Cambridge City Council, hopes to unseat an incumbent in next week’s elections—no small order in a city with low political turnover. In entering this race, the progressive Democrat is willing to accept all the help...
...Resources may not be pouring in from far afield—as of midsummer, Seidel had one-sixteenth the campaign funding of Cambridge’s mayor—but Seidel’s local aspirations are far from narrow...
...Seidel’s political platform bears the thumbprint of an urban planner. Seidel, who holds a degree from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, proposes establishing wireless Internet throughout Cambridge and making the price of parking permits proportional to the size of vehicles that take up the city’s valuable curb space...
...says one of his greatest concerns is the relationship between the city and its universities. Despite the cultural and economic contributions that Harvard offers its neighbors, Seidel says he believes that the University’s effect on the city is not beneficent. Even so, he says Cambridge and its universities depend on each other...
...Seidel says that achieving the proper balance in this relationship requires “a complicated dance” because of Harvard’s facilities and the constraints they place on the geographically small city. As a nonprofit tax-exempt institution, Harvard uses public resources—like roads and sewage channels—with no legal requirement to pay for them. The University makes a voluntary annual payment to the city in lieu of taxes, but politicians frequently call on Harvard to contribute more...