Band said that plans do not include an Urban Ring stop in Allston, but that Harvard had requested that the city consider extending it there.

He said that Harvard also wanted to construct a stop on the Framingham/Worcester commuter rail line in Allston. Band said that he hoped that the commuter rail, the Urban Ring, and the Harvard shuttle could all stop at the same point.

One resident at the meeting told Band that Harvard would not succeed with an extension of public transit to Allston since the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) would not be able to afford it.

But Band said that although Harvard had not agreed to fund an extension, “inventive financing” was possible. “We’re talking to them and they’re not stonewalling us yet,” he said.

One resident questioned another plan presented at the meeting to build pedestrian and bike pathways on North Harvard Street in front of the Harvard athletic complex.

McGregor said that it was an opportunity to “make the walk from Barry’s Corner to the bridge very pleasing.”

But Debby Giovanditto, a leader of the tenants at the Charlesview Apartment complex at Barry’s Corner, objected to any plan that would take away parking spaces from the street that were used by apartment tenants.

Thursday’s meeting was the third one that Harvard has held since a preliminary plan detailing the community’s priorities in Allston was released in December.

Harvard will use that plan—known as the North Allston Strategic Framework for Planning—to prepare an institutional master plan for Harvard’s future Allston campus. Last month, Kathy Spiegelman, Harvard’s top planner, said that Harvard hoped to release a draft of the master plan by the end of this academic year.

In an interview after Thursday’s meeting—which was designed to gather resident input for the master plan—Band said that he was not sure if that timetable was still on track. He said the University hoped to hold another meeting within the next month and present “more concrete options.”

—Staff writer Joseph M. Tartakoff can be reached at tartakof@fas.harvard.edu.