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Seven years ago, the commission recommended that the Cambridge City Council designate the area a landmark, but the council never voted on the matter.
City Councillor Henrietta Davis, who was on the council when it first considered making the area a historic landmark, urged the commission to initiate a new study to protect the area.
But Cambridge Historical Commission member Frank Shirley, who participated in the 1999-2000 landmark study, voted against the new study.
The Cambridge Historical Commission decided last night to study whether a 92-year-old plot of green space at the center of a tense battle between residents and developers should be designated a historic landmark.
“I think they made the right decision,” Dennis W. Townley, who lives in Shady Hill Square, said after the meeting. “I think it’s clear to the commission that Shady Hill should be made a historic area.?...