--Imtiyaz H. Delawala
At a late July meeting, Cambridge residents living around the southern edge of campus voiced their support for an 18-month development moratorium for their area, which includes the site occupied by Mahoney's Garden Center on Memorial Drive.
Harvard has expressed an interest in building a modern art museum on the site.
Residents told the city's ordinance committee that the neighborhood is already too crowded and that a museum would block their easy access to the Charles River.
Others said that issues such as traffic and ecological impacts should be studied before the University moves forward with any more plans.
University officials last met with Riverside residents in late June, presenting architectural drawings and models for the proposed site.
At that meeting, there were as many supporters of the proposed museum as there were opponents.
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