In addition, Harvard will donate $1 million to a city-wide Youth, Culture, and Recreation fund and establish a new science partnership with the Cambridge Public Schools at an estimated cost of $1.45 million.
The community will receive these benefits in specific stages tied to the approval of permits and the completion of each project.
At the Dec. 16 meeting, neighbors received a draft memo outlining Harvard’s plans to minimize the negative construction impacts FAS projects will have on the neighborhood.
The plan provides for a hotline for residents to call with concerns, designates a construction mitigation manager to respond to complaints and calls for measures to limit noise, dust, vibrations and truck traffic.
Bloomstein said at the meeting that the memo represents a draft that will be fleshed out more in the future. He said the ACID negotiators had rejected three previous drafts that he called “unacceptable.”
—Staff writer Jessica R. Rubin-Wills can be reached at rubinwil@fas.harvard.edu.