Word: cca
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After a decidedly lackluster campaign, the council emerged almost unchanged on the survive. Eight of the nine incumbents won re-election, and the balance of power between the four liberal. Cambridge Civic Association (CCA)-backed councilors, the four conservative Independents and the self-proclaimed swing vote Alfred F. Vellucci remained intact...
This year, the council took four weeks to reach its decision, and the backstage bargains that Russell made are gradually becoming apparent. The former staunch conservative voted to support a regulation requiring local restaurants to set aside 25 percent of their seating area for non-smokers, a CCA-supported move. Even more distressing to his comrades on the right was Russell's approval of two "liberal" commissions. One is currently investigating the policy of linkage, which would force commercial developers to build a certain amount of housing for each office complex they erect. The second committee will keep...
Council power hangs in a tenuous balance between the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA)-affiliated councilors, who favored the smoking ban, and the conservative Independents, who opposed the measure on the grounds that it would unfairly restrict private enterprise...
...when Independent Russell changed his vote, the four CCA councilors won over a fifth vote necessary for the majority required to pass the measure...
...CCA supports...