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State Senator Beryl W. Cohen 'D Brookline', at the urging of North Harvard community leaders, filed an emergency bill to modify the North Harvard renewal plan. The bill would require the BRA to change its renewal scheme from one of demolition and new construction to one of rehabilitation of existing structures. It would also stop the BRA from demolishing any more buildings or evicting any more residents for any reason except the non-payment of rent...
...City Council (which comes up for re-election next month) voted to ask the BRA to halt further evictions until the Legislature acts on Senator Cohen's bill. "They certainly don't want to appear to be lined up against the people," commented Coben, who noted that this was one of the few measures Councilor Katherine Kraven, an outspoken renewal foe, has ever gotten through the Council. (The bill has already been approved by the Senate Rules Committee and will go before the House Rules Committee Tuesday morning. A favorable vote is expected...
Then in a surprise move Wednesday, Logue said that he will order no more evictions until after the next BRA meeting, August 19. The reason given was that cooperation among the residents had "improved considerably." Several residents, after Monday's arrests, had apparently decided that the fight was lost. The hard core, however, symbolized by Mr. and Mrs. Albert Redgate, were still adamant. "We're not cooperating. We still want our homes," she asserted...
Furthermore, Mayor Collins - until then a strong supporter of the Aliston BRA project - said that he had "recommended to the Boston Redevelopment Authority that it re-open the question of the best use of the six-acre tract after it has been cleared and that it reconsider as well the method of selecting a developer." (Italics supplied.) He continued that the recently enacted Housing Act of 1965 "makes it possible to achieve lower rents than were possible when the project was first planned." He proposed a blue-ribbon committee be selected to evaluate the best use of the land...
...insinuated that these men had been big campaign contributors of Collins. Of course, when questioned further, no one had any evidence of any improprieties. Why, they weren't accusing anyone of anything. But the innuendoes they were spreading around the city were about as subtle as one of the BRA's bulldozers...