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June 16, 2008, 02:23 PM ET
Boston College to Meet With Neighbors About Student Housing
Boston College will meet with its neighbors tonight to discuss the most contentious aspect of its expansion plans — the housing of students.
Last year, Boston College announced its expansion plans for what officials call the Brighton Campus, a plot of land once owned by the Boston Archdiocese, which will be the home of playing fields, an athletics center, and other structures. The Boston Globe reports that the college has already made several changes to its plans to appease the neighbors, including rotating the fields away from the neighborhood, reducing the size of the athletics center and its parking garage, and limiting artificial turf on the fields.
Some neighbors have been happy about the changes; others not so much. “There are too many seats in the baseball field, and too many parking spaces,” Fred Salvucci, a neighbor who is a transportation researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and former state transportation official, told the Globe. “Five hundred spaces would bring traffic to Brighton Center and Foster Street, which are already at capacity.”
The Globe notes that tonight’s meeting about housing will likely bring about more debate.
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