Word: siting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meeting last week, five members of the board expressed their desire to down-zone the land, which would lower the maximum legal height of any building built on that site from 85 to 35 feet...
...RESPONSE to a petition requesting that Cambridge down-zone Harvard-owned property on Observatory Hill, which would affect future construction on the site, the Cambridge Planning Board made a recommendation Tuesday evening that the maximum height of any building be lowered from 85 to 35 feet. The City Council will vote on the recommendation after a hearing within the next few weeks, and the council, we hope, will support the community's protest against any future major construction, beyond the proposed athletic facilities, by Harvard in the area...
...neighborhood group, known as Neighborhood Nine, after initially focusing on resisting Radcliffe's proposed athletic facility, this summer turned its attention to Harvard's long-range plans that have designated some of the Observatory Hill property as a potential parking garage site. Although a change in the zoning map will not completely eliminate the possibility of another Harvard building, the Cambridge residents have every right to be concerned about the future of this property. The City Council should make the appropriate zoning changes to protect this quiet residential area...
Polls conducted by Dean Fox's office during the past several years showed that students living at Radcliffe list building a recreational athletic facility as their chief request towards making life at the Quad more desirable. The proposed facility will be built on the present site of five outdoor tennis courts on the corner of Bond and Garden Sts., and will not reduce open park space...
Boston Edison is disputing the claims of project engineers that the plant will provide savings to the hospitals it will serve--each side has produced its own cost study with results favorable to its own interests. And residents of Boston's Mission Hill neighborhood, adjacent to the construction site, are contesting in court the state environmental quality agency's finding, implicit in its approval of the foundation, that overall the plant will not have a significantly adverse effect on the local environment...