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Councillor E. Denise Simmons said that she would like to improve board members’ skills in dealing with a wide variety of people—particularly non-experts on development??but that she needed more time to consider any other steps...
...University’s administration will be quick to point out, Harvard pays other taxes and has done much in the way of bringing prestige and business to Cambridge. But PILOT payments are a good investment in positive relations with our neighbors. Recent fights over Harvard development??including, notably, the defunct plans for a tunnel under Cambridge Street and a modern art museum on the Charles River that never materialized—demonstrate that both the school and the city lose when politics turn ugly...
William Bloomstein of the neighborhood activist group ACID—the Agassiz Committee on the Impacts of Development??told members that, by avoiding the “adversarial” approach other groups have taken in response to Harvard development, Agassiz residents stand to benefit from the negotiations...
...word ‘development?? is an imperialistic term; the more we are American, the more we are ‘developed,’” says Sulak. He points to the gas pipeline being laid throughout Thailand as an example of an investment that, in the name of “development,” is really just generating paybacks to high governmental officials and a company linked to U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney...
However, a number of obstacles stand in the way of development??the property is crisscrossed by miles of iron and concrete, cut in two pieces by the turnpike, and dominated by rail lines owned by CSX—which has rights to use the land in perpetuity...