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Another important piece of the machinery which shapes housing in Cambridge are the regulatory codes. At this point in time, we are only able to enforce our housing code--which applies to buildings after they are built--with respect to conditions which seriously endanger health and safety. To enforce it more strictly would reduce the available housing stock, particularly in the critical low rent brackets. We don't want any of our citizens living in unsafe or unhealthy housing, but to force a family out of housing units because there are no screens, or because lighting is inadequate seems absurd...
...also, have a building code in Cambridge, which regulates the construction of new buildings. If we are to encourage innovative new methods of constructing lower cost housing, we must adopt a "performance standard" building code, specifically the BOCA code which has received considerable national attention and has already been adopted by a number of localities. This code, rather than limiting construction to a select few methods, sets up minimum standards of strength, durability and safety. Then any system of building which meets those standards can be accepted for use in the city. It is an inclusive rather than exclusive code...
...Building Commissioner has at my request ordered a number of copies of the BOCA Code which will in the next few weeks be presented to a committee of Architects and Builders for review during the summer with the intention of proposing any amendments or recommendations that will make it more adaptable for the City of Cambridge. When their report is received it will be presented to the City Council for their consideration...
...provides a critical element in the process of providing more reasonably priced housing--it reduces the cost of assembling and preparing property for redevelopment or rehabilitation. There are new, more flexible renewal procedures such as Neighborhood Development Program and the advance availability of rehabilitation funds for future renewal or code enforcement areas...
...Moon, Cartoonist Charles Schulz presented each of the three Apollo 10 astronauts with toy replicas of Snoopy, the lop-eared dog of derring-do from his comic strip "Peanuts." The hound, along with another of Schulz's characters, Charlie Brown, achieved celestial fame as the code names of the Apollo lunar module and command ship. Schulz naturally wanted to meet the astronauts who had adopted his creations; so they were introduced and exchanged gifts. Schulz received a photo of the space-traveling Snoopy making an inverted rendezvous with Charlie Brown. The inscription: "Snoopy never did know which...