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...August. But politicking in Cambridge starts early and spreads far. In every biannual election, all nine city council seats are up for grabs. And this November 2 is made even more crucial by the fact that political control now rests in delicate balance between the progressive Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) and the more conservative, neighborhood-oriented Independents. Each bloc holds four seats, with Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci--the self-proclaimed "small i" independent and champion of the city's poor and elderly--as the swing vote...
Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci last night made a parliamentary move to reconsider a council vote last week that sent a CDD proposal that was amended by the council's liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) faction...
...four CCA councilors last week increased the original CDD requirement of 100 housing units with 26 subsididzed for low-income residents to 350 units with 77 reserved for poor tenants...
...CCA councilors argued that once the planning board made a recommendation, the council could not make the zoning package more restrictive...
Although Walsh says rent board members are "extremely rude" to landlords and tenants, he contends that the major problem with the rent board is the members "political leanings. "Cohn" wants to make sure the CCA stays in effective control of the rent board "in order to perpetuate things." Walsh says, adding that neither the landlord nor tenant representatives are typical of the groups they serve. According to Walsh Cohn does not under stand the average landlord. He's a dreamer in a world where reality" outweighs any respect for theory. And Walsh says that if you tell me Joel Johnson...