Word: cambridgeport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both residents and some city officials agree that if the council does not pass a rezoning ordinance within the next few months, a significant portion of the Cambridgeport Industrial Area--which for more than two years has been the subject of sharp debate--will be developed without reflecting the concern of the neighborhood...
...previous debate on the issue, the city council has tended to mirror the sharp division that exists within Cambridgeport between MIT, the principal landowner, and the neighborhood group, which calls itself the Simplex Steering Committee. None of the four zoning petitions brought before the council in the last two years has even reached the stage of a final vote...
...agreement on zoning the area is now urgent, committee members say, because MIT will soon select a developer for 27 acres land that it owns in Cambridgeport called the Simplex Development Area. Current zoning laws would allow MIT to build virtually whatever it wants on the property, and the neighborhood group is pushing for more restrictive zoning...
Should the council not pass a rezoning ordinance before MIT's developer obtains building permits, the Simplex area would be free from any subsequent changes to the zoning of Cambridgeport...
...city with fixed boundaries cannot continue to allow unbridled office development, with all its upscale baggage," the petition says It continues. For older neighborhoods like Cambridgeport the price is gentrification pressure on homeowners and tenants to sell or move...