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...landlords decided last year to make a test case" of the Linnaean St. residents," Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) Councilor David Wylie said last night. He added that the ordinance approved by the council last night could potentially prove "very destructive" to the city's overall condo conversion ban be cause the exemption has the effect of "treating similar cases dissimilarly...
Traditionally supporting the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) on housing issues, but having won the Mayor's chair in January on the basis of conservative Independent support, Vellucci now seems confused about where he should lend his crucial swing vote on the divided council. Seems, however, is the key word here...
Vellucci managed to dominate the council's last two year term and climbed to the mayoralty this session precisely because of the way he straddled the fence between Independents and the CCA over the hottest political issue in the city. Though Vellucci more than anyone is responsible for the city's housing guidelines, he never staked out a clear position on the issue of whether Cambridge should weaken its tough controls against condominium conversion. Those controls protect rent-controlled housing from the open market forces that would transform them into luxury condos...
...past few years Vellucci has been on a hot seat between the Independents and the CCA. In a more significant respect, however, he has occupied a spot envied by the rest of the city's politicians, able to decide with his own vote any of the city council's key debates. Although Vellucci has enjoyed that position and successfully maintained it, his original placement there was no accident...
...also does not agree with the Independents' tendency to support banks, businessmen, and developers before the working man. Vellucci's consistent, sincere concern for native Cantabrigians who are struggling against the economic tide to retain their homes has often torn him away from the Independents to vote with the CCA...