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...Cambridgeport--where city planners have had enormous trouble trying to lure private investment--a compromise zoning package may be in the works. The Planning Board is expected to recommend tonight that portions of two competing proposals--one from MIT, the other from local residents--be adopted by the city council, Vickery said...
...proposal would allow more large scale development on the Mass Ave and MIT edges of Cambridgeport; the community proposal would focus more on housing in the lower two-thirds of the neighborhood. A lengthy council battle is expected...
...Cambridgeport resident, who first won election to the council in 1970 and lost--after serving four terms--by only about 100 votes, was a member of the council when rent control was first adopted. He says now that the system has run amok since he voted for its adoption...
Many observers thought Wylie would disappear in 1979; instead, Mary Ellen Preusser went down the tubes. Preusser began her reelection campaign many months ago, but it is unclear how successful she has been. Though she has mounted a visible effort, especially in West Cambridge and in politically unpredictable Cambridgeport, Preusser has been hurt by two factors: her biggest issue, university expansion, was largely settled last summer when the city council finally adopted zoning laws to restrict the growth of tax-exempt institutions. And the plethora of women candidates will fragment the feminist vote...
...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...