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Differing only in the number of housing untis they require, the plants create zoning guidelines for buildings on a 100-acre vacant tract located in the southern sector of the city between MIT and the Charles River. The plot covers much of the Cambridgeport neighborhood...
...been rezoned since the 1950s and the current regulations allow for no city control over the type of developments built on the property. Several city councilors and community groups have been struggling to design new zoning for the tract since MIT--which owns about one-half of the Cambridgeport land--announced last year that it was preparing to choose a developer for 27 of its acres...
Priority neighborhoods for rehabilitation are those with the highest concentration of low-income housing, such as East and North Cambridge, Wellington-Harrington, and Cambridgeport-Riverside...
Councillor David A Wylie, who led the abortive effort to rezone the 130 acre plot in the Cambridgeport area, said yesterday he would probably spend the evening studying Russian "I guess we earned our pay for the month." In the last two weeks, he added...
Despite concerns raised by several of the council's liberal members that the failure to pass any new zoning gives MIT and other developers a free hand in Cambridgeport, Clinton said that "even people working on the Simples petition know nothing is going to happen for a year...