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With Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci voting with the four liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) councilors, the council passed an amendment to the original condo conversion ordinance clarifying which rental units can be removed from the market without a special permit granted by the rent board...
Earlier this year, a Middlesex District Court judge ruled that the intent of the ordinance was unclear, and allowed a Cambridge woman who moved into her apartment after the 1979 date to buy her unit as a condo He state the original law did not specify the 1979 date and added that the rent control board could not legally interpret the council's intent in denying removal permits to post 1979 tenants...
...Other components of our housing profile have been ignored two long while condo controls in particular have dominated the Council agenda," Vellucci stated...
Last night the four CCA councilors and Vellucci also gave preliminary approval to an ordinance sponsored by CCA councilor Saundra Graham which attempts to clarity the purpose of the anti-condo code passed in August...
...Cambridge is primarily a low-moderate income city, but that is changing with the new construction, new development, rent increases through the rent board, and condo conversion," said Michael H. Turk, coordinator of the Harvard Tenants Union and a member of the Rent Control Task Force, which organized the convention...