If the city of Cambridge has its way, a new residential golf course development overlooking the Little Blackwater River will lure 10,000 new residents — nearly doubling the city’s population — over the next two decades. For Cambridge leaders, Blackwater Resort means needed tax revenue and new life for a hard-luck area that hasn’t grown much in three decades.

But the view from across the bay, at the headquarters of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, is different. Environmentalists there see an outsize development that would be built upriver from a wildlife refuge considered a national treasure, adding more sewage and polluted runoff to an already unhealthy bay.

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