In a broader sense, the Northeast Area Plan illustrates why relations between Lower Town residents and the University have frayed in recent years.

In an area hoping to revitalize around its historic homes, the plan says that the University “has removed numerous old homes” which “have been replaced with surface parking lots to serve the university medical facilities in the area.”

Those opposing the structures have suggested that the existing surface parking lots be converted into freestanding structures to abate the need for new lots in the Wall Street-Maiden Lane area.