Word: cambridgeport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...different petitions for the rezoning of the Cambridgeport industrial area--one calling for a comprehensive redevelopment scheme and the other asking for flexible site-by-site planning--were presented Wednesday night to the City Council's Committee on Ordinances...
...second plan, proposed by MIT, a major landowner in the area, recommended that only 20 to 25 areas of Cambridgeport be rezoned to allow industry, office buildings and housing in the area, with new projects approved case-by-case...
...major problem has been publicity; in an effort to remind women of the existence of the shelters, organizers have posted signs and gone on the radio. Now they are walking door to door in the Cambridgeport community...
...program has mushroomed to include 60 homes, most in the Cambridgeport and Riverside neighborhoods, but some in all corners of the city. Each of the houses keeps a green light in the window; each opens its doors to women who need a refuge from crime...
...women currently in the program agree. A string of rapes in the Cambridgeport area last summer didn't bring adequate police response, but did, according to one participant in the safe house network who asked not to be identified, "heighten the visibility of the entire problem--and of solutions like this...