Kaufman said that he also checked with the weather bureau, and was told that winds classified as "prevailing winds" only blow from the west up to 50 per cent of that time.

"So essentially that it means is what about half the time we're going to have winds from the other direction blowing fumes into the apartments," Kaufman said. "It's a bit disturbing."

"Then I started thinking about noise," Kaufman added. "That thing (the garage) is going to be open all night. If one guy sits on his horn, it's going to wake up the whole building. It's a common practice in parking garages to honk your horn as you come around a corner. Even if it happened only 15 nights a year, we would consider it an imposition."

The tenants also have some more general complaints about the landscaping and aesthetics of the site.

"I told him (Moulton) 'When you put up a building that you have to look at you do a nice job, when you put it in our backyard you use concrete block,'" "Kaufman said. "(He) couldn't fathom why we didn't want to look at a concrete wall."

Kaufman said that in the November meeting he suggested putting the garage across the river at the Business School, and running shuttle buses back and forth.

"They said that the professors get very upset when they have to walk a long way from their cars to the buildings," Kaufman said. "They (professors) don't read what they publish. They are unwilling to discipline themselves for the sake of the community."

On March 3, Kaufman sent a letter to Harvard requesting a meeting to discuss cancellation or modification of the plans for the garage, as well as landscaping plans for the area. The letter particularly expressed the tenants' disquiet at being presented with a falt accompli in Harvard's letter of last June.

Charles U. Daly, vice president for Community Affairs, said yesterday that he wanted to go over the tenants' letter line by line "and see what constructive suggestions can be reached."

When asked about Moulton's letter, Daly said. "All I know is that I assume the plans were carefully drawn. If there is a point of difference there, we'd be glad to go over it, as well as any other points.