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Currently, the council is weighing two separate but similar changes to zoning laws. One is sponsored by Councilor David E. Sullivan of the progressive Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) and the other by William Noble of the Cambridge Rent Control Coalition...
...when the changes come to a vote (they expire if not acted on before March 4), the three other CCA councilors are expected to throw their weight behind their colleague's less restrictive proposal. Additional support will come from Cambridge Mayor Leonard Russell, who, according to local observers, agreed to back inclusionary zoning a year ago in return for the help Sullivan lent him in his quest to be mayor. Ordinarily, changes in the zoning laws require six votes on the council with former Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci possibly holding the swing vote...
Russell and other councillors favoring the idea of inclusionary zoning and linkage are expected to put their weight behind the Sullivan proposal instead of the CRCC one, which is more restrictive on developers In addition to the mayor, Sullivan, Councillor Alfred Velucci and the three other Cambridge Civie Assocation (CCA) members reportedly will vote for some modified form of Sullivan's bill...
Both Wolf and Sullivan are members of the CCA...
Cambridge city politics has in recent years been the scene of volatile contests between the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) and the conservative Independents, each of which now backs four of the nine councilors. With a guaranteed long term in office, some councilors fear that Healy may jettison the neutrality he has generally demonstrated towards partisan disputes...