Word: heights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard officials used the rule, which in Cambridge means seven of the nine city councilors, or three-fourths, must favor a zoning change, in a successful attempt to block the Harvard Square overlay, a height limitation on building in the Square...
...subcommittee, former AEC Commissioner Eugene Zuckert tried to defend these troubling actions. Said he: "The balance was allowed to tip to the military. They knew the implications. I don't think it was our responsibility to override them." Kennedy himself acknowledged that the tests were staged at the height of the cold war and before many of the effects of radiation were known...
...then, sits Harvard, and recently that has become a problem. In 1636, Cambridge donated to the school the land upon which Hollis, Holworthy, Stoughton and Harvard Halls are now located. Yet in 1979, the city tried to restrict Harvard expansion into nearby neighborhoods, "downzoning" residential property and putting a height ceiling on construction in the Square...
Some townspeople cite the controversy surrounding a proposed "overlay zone" to limit the height of buildings in Harvard Square as the best example of their grievance with the University. The petition won six out of nine votes, enough for passage of a zoning change under normal circumstances. But the circumstances weren't normal--antiquated state law allows the owner of 20 per cent of the property in an affected area to file an objection demanding a seventh vote in the city council. Harvard exercised its option, a seventh vote was nowhere to be found, and the overlay failed...
...Crane '73, agreed the University had been the fall guy in the controversy. "The overlay really aimed at private interests, and Harvard was just a target," Crane said. "Even after the vote, we offered to plan with the city. They told us it was a moot point, that the height limit was in force,' Michael F. Brewer, assistant vice president for government and community affairs, says. Other city councillors dismissed a University claim that it had been unwarned about the overlay. I'd been meeting with them for three months," Preusser said. "They wouldn't specify their complaints--I just...