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Another group of new condo owners seeking exemption from Cambridge's tough anti-condominium conversion ordinances came to city hall last night, but the city council postponed discussion of the case for at least two weeks...
Councilor Walter Sullivan had sponsored a motion that would allow the condo owners--who until this summer rented their apartments on Linnean St. and Washington Ave.--to bypass a set of city ordinances designed to prevent the removal of housing from the rental market for conversion to condominiums...
...least 28 of the tenants who have purchased their apartments are required by city ordinance to seek removal permits from the Rent Control Board. Without the permits, the new condo owners must either rent or sell their former apartments to a third party...
...much American housing, of course, is panoramicaily 11 sipidmass-stamped suburbs as standardized as boxes on super market shelves, the endless Amway and Tupperware America. It may be fatuous to envision new splendors of design in a nation going to condo and cluster. But interesting, occasionally bizarre ideas are turning up. In the Midwest some builders are digging underground houses with skylights and atriums and a thick dome of earth on top that eliminates abrupt temperature changes from season to season. Friends, even strangers, are getting together to buy a house and share it. Under some arrangements, two couples...
Americans, a nation of transients, seldom linger long enough in a condo to give it ghosts. There was a time when houses-some houses-sheltered whole generations in sequence, witnessed them and thus acquired a numinous life of their own, a moral dimension that was once much sentimentalized. It was real enough all the same...