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Nearly 900 residents packed a high school auditorium to vote in a true New England-style town meeting on whether Weston should buy 40 acres of land in the heart of town. By a vote of 741 to 158, Weston achieved the two-thirds needed to acquire the University-owned property...
Harvard approached the Town of Weston last spring with the offer to sell the property as a fundraiser for Harvard's financially-troubled Arnold Arboretum. The Arboretum is a 110-acre botanical research center which also maintains property in Boston's Jamaica Plain...
...Weston had decided to turn down the offer, Harvard was prepared to sell the acreage to two executives of Cambridge's General Computer Corporation, said Harold Hestnes '58, an attorney who lives in the affluent suburb...
Most residents at last night's town meeting said they had property values and tax increases on the mind. Though the average value of a house in Weston is currently $228,000, home owners could pay an additional $546 in property taxes under the recently-passed tax increase, said William T. Sandalls Jr., a 41-year-old banker on Weston's finance committee...
...Weston's three town selectman will now appoint a special committee to study possible uses for the land. Harvard officials said they expect to close the deal with Weston by January