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...will have to be lobbied to support GRO proposals. GRO must continually organize the political process, along with other community groups, to extend and preserve the possibilities for basic change that exist in Cambridge. Cambridge could be a model for what economic justice can do for the people. John Brode '56, a longtime Cambridge activist, is running for City Council on the GRO slate...
...TAXES: Much debate revolves around the project's tax benefit for the city. CRA Executive Director Robert Rowland asserts that such revenue could mean $7.50 off the city's ever rising property tax rate. Others, though, contest the methods by which the CRA calculated the tax benefit. John Brode, Democratic City Committee Chairman, says that the Gladstone Associates used 100 per cent occupancy figures to estimate tax revenue but only 50 to 70 per cent occupancy to calculate city service costs. Thompson refuted Brode's charges...
...Brode bases his claims that Gladstone underestimated occupancy on figures taken from two other developments in the city which average 2.1 people per dwelling unit while Kendall Square is projected to have only 1.3 persons per unit," Thompson replied. "It's like comparing apples and oranges...
...Brode said yesterday that Cambridge census takers had not counted many young people who live in apartments in the city because they thought they were students...
...Brode said yesterday that the hearings for the lawsuit should begin later this month...