GoLocalProv | Brown Versus the Neighbors, Again – Architecture Critic Morgan
The HDC's role is merely to give conceptual review (the City Planning Commission has already given its approval). Yet every commission member and witnesses spoke out against the dormitories. Beyond the issue of impacted empty lots on Power Street, the meeting was essentially a gripe session about Brown's imperiousness and lack of transparency. Complaints centered mostly on the questions of scale, and the inappropriateness of such a massive block (five stories and 80,000 square feet) in an older streetscape. Councilman John Goncalves called the dorms "not aesthetically or functionally in tu...
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