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...building plans for the gym are finished and are sitting neatly rolled up in a corner of President Horner's office. Radcliffe officials now only await a vote on the down-zoning petition to limit Harvard's building space that over a hundred Observatory Hill residents signed last spring. Yet whether or not the Council passes the petition, Radcliffe could still build the gym, since it fits the strictest zoning regulations...
...likely to favor the down-zoning petition, since most councilors favor putting some restrictions on Harvard's rights to Cambridge. However, council approval of another citizens' proposal--that the city take over property by eminent domain, is an entirely different proposition. What's more, the opponents of the gym want the state legislature to change a state law to limit the expansion of all academic institutions in Cambridge, and this move seems to have an even smaller chance of success...
...city to take the property back, but instead are hoping to stall for enough time until Graham can submit her resolution to the legislature. Additional suggestions, such as sitting down and talking about making Harvard pay more taxes to the city or calling further public hearings to discuss the gym are mentioned in a letter the residents sent to the city councilors last week. Thus while it still seems that stopping the gym is the community group's ultimate objective, the issue is getting confused...
...declared a federal national landmark, that will give tremendous momentum to the efforts to prevent construction of the gym and desecration of the site," August said...
Thegroup, which now has five members, will try to get students and others from the Cambridge community to go to Kent State's Ohio campus and demonstrate against the gym, August said...