Word: condo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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David Sullivan, who drafted the anti-condo ordinance more than two years ago, said the proposed amendment would be "treating people in the same situations differently." Since developers challenging the condo ordinance in court have charged the city with violating equal protection laws, enacting such an amendment is "the last thing the city should be doing," Sullivan said...
Mary Allen Wilkes called herself the condo candidate; she ran a single-issue campaign, attacking the city's two-year-old ordinance restricting condominiums, a position shared by the old-line Independent councilors, of whom Danehy was one. But Wilkes is a corporate lawyer, a resident of fashionable West Cambridge--in background and style much closer to Wolf. So the liberals were almost sure they could pick up some ballots, when Wilkes was ellminated and her votes transferred; the only question, they thought, was would they get enough...
...member, Kevin P. Crane '73; the city's demographics had been getting better for liberals year after year; in short, it appeared an ideal election to pick up the fifth seat and end the long reliance on Alfred E. Vellucci for the vote that keeps rent control and the condo ordinance intact...
...Ward 7, Precinct 5, however, where most Quad residents vote, condo candidate Wilkes received 119 votes, followed by Wylie with 80, Duehay with 77, David Sullivan with 75, and Wolf with...
...their former plight as rent-control tenants. "Your financial situation has changed," Wylie told the tenants, "but the members of this council pledged to preserve rent control cannot change even if it is only two weeks before the election." Mary Allen Wilkes is the chief standard-bearer of the condo forces...