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Sullivan and the other three councilors in the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) teamed with self-proclaimed swing vote Alfred e. Vellucci to reject a tax plan recommended by City Manager Robert W. Healy...
Added Leib, a member of the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), "Now we can deal with education more than politics...
Heated controversy broke out earlier this year when committee members voted not to rehire CCA-endorsed William C. Lannon, superintendent since...
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...
...problem is that the land is currently zoned "industrial B", a classification that allows a developer to build almost anything, from two-story houses to multi-story commercial buildings, with very little city regulation. The CCA bloc on the council wants to change the zoning to force developers to use at least some of that land for housing to relieve Cambridge's notoriously tight market. Ordinarily, a zoning change requires five council votes--which on the current council means that four CCA councilors and Russell. Yet MIT owns almost all of the land in question, and an obscure...