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...board and the residents. Even when the board voted in 2006 to accept an offer from Harvard for 6.25 acres of land where the Brighton Mills shopping center is currently located, residents remained dissatisfied, staging protests and charging that they were being excluded from the decision-making process...
...Despite the revisions, some Allston residents say that the Charlesview relocation, tantamount to a major residential transformation at the heart of the local neighborhood, remains critically flawed. But even more disconcerting is the slender time frame they have to address their qualms: The community review process is slated to end in October—only three months after the Community Builders presented their revised plan. So far, only one public discussion has been dedicated to examining the plan...
...University to allow development on more of its Allston land holdings adjacent to the proposed Charlesview site—much of which currently sits vacant or has no explicit future institutional purpose. But Harvard has largely shied away from directly commenting on or involving itself in the planning process, preferring to allow the Community Builders and the City to wrangle over details...
...providing more land for development or if it had other institutional designs for those plots, wrote in an e-mailed statement that the University has “had a productive discussion with Charlesview Inc.” and “remains respectful of the public review process that is underway...
...Shumaker, the BRA spokeswoman, says that the revised plan does address a number of the previous concerns, but notes that a third and final revision cycle is a possibility if the plan is not approved. Only after the public review process concludes, she says, will City planners know if the changes are adequate...