“If credibility were unshakable, if I believed this was the final plan, that’s it,” Michalik said. “But...in ten years they’ll build a second building, a third, or a fourth.”
The neighbors are preparing to bargain with the arboretum, which still needs zoning approval before it undertakes its expansion.
Michalik listed construction and traffic mitigation, as well as more instruction for neighborhood children as gestures Harvard should make.
—Staff writer Jonathan P. Abel can be reached at abel@fas.harvard.edu.
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