The city's proposal involves reducing the size of Building H,one of Fan Pier's main waterfront buildings, making it residentialand adding civic space in two of the buildings. The proposal fallsshort of state Secretary of Environmental Affairs Robert Durand'sdemand to eliminate Building H altogether.

"We wanted a greater view corridor of the water," says DougPizzi, press secretary for the Office of Environmental Affairs. "Wethought getting rid of building H was the easiest way to do that.What they came back with was not another way to do that." Pizzitells GlobeSt.com that his office has not signed off on thecompromise plan yet. "We want more details on what this entails interms of density of the project," he notes. "We're still goingthrough negotiations."

The Fan Pier Project, the city's largest waterfront developmentplan in Boston's history, was originally to be developed on 3.3million sf of land. Under Secretary Durand's revision the plan wascut down to approximately 2.7 million sf of land. The compromiseplan cuts the project down to a little over 3 million sf ofland.