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Under the proposal, citizens or developers wanting to open a business in a residentially zoned or open space area would be forced to request that the council rewrite the zoning ordinance or change zoning lines, said CCLN co-chair Daniel E. Geer...
Geer said the petition was sparked by a situation a couple of years ago in which a residential area along the northern part of Mass Ave. near Porter Square was re-zoned as a commerical district by the Zoning Board...
...proposed amendment will require a two-thirds vote of the council to pass, Geer said. However, should 20 percent of the property owners in the area object to the proposal, the required percentage of votes jumps to three-fourths...
...sexism and inequality they feel are inherent in Western legal thought. "The law has been written with men in mind," explains Professor Mary Coombs of the University of Miami Law School. "Feminist jurisprudence puts women at the center and asks, 'To what extent is this doctrine or this area of law designed in a way that implicitly assumes people...
Feminist legal theory is highly controversial, but it is the most dynamic area of law today. Feminist scholars have pioneered the concept of sexual harassment in the workplace as a violation of civil rights, catalyzed passage of rape shield laws that forbid courtroom inquiries into victims' sexual experience, and expanded the principle of self-defense to cover battered women accused of killing abusive mates...