BLAIR POND PROPOSAL

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

I have read your article of November 20, 1970, regarding a proposal by. Harvard University to build housing in the Cambridge Highlands-Blair Pond area.

The University has distorted the Cambridge Highlands Neighborhood Association's areas of opposition just as they have the decision released by the Department of Natural resources.

Contrary to the ideas probably conveyed to you by Harvard University officials. I can assure you that the residents of Cambridge Highlands DO NOT FEEL that "our neighborhood will be cheapened" by the presence of low income people.

While Mr. Gruson is supposedly an expert in the field of city planning and Mr. Hornbeck a landscape architect, their hasty opinions of flood control problems only magnifies the poor planning that has dominated the Blair Pond proposal, and can hardly be considered professional.

The neighborhood associations are not opposed to the development of low and moderate income housing in our area; however, we do not approve of people who live in the seclusion of estates in Concord and Falmouth improperly planning housing for low and moderate income persons as if they were a different species of man, and thereby repeating the worst characteristics of public housing.