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...change in voting patterns is high. "There is an emerging constituency. It's almost a John Anderson constituency--liberal on social issues, but quite conservative on economic questions," Councilor David Sullivan, who collected the second highest number of votes during the last City Council election, says. Without regulation slowing condo growth, that class could be huge by the end of the decade; with the current controls it will still be sizeable and powerful...
...city's current porfessionals, who are by and large liberal, may not necessarily be indicators of the politics of this new condo class. Those lured by the condo lifestyle, as opposed to those who came to Cambridge to be near the universities, seem less likely to be liberal. The Cambridge upper class, which comprises the backbone of the CCA, is "not like those who may move in from Lincoln and Weston," Duehay says, adding, "There may be a liberal tinge, just because this is Cambridge, but I think they will be more conservative...
Cambridge Mayor Francis H. Duehay '55 said Saturday, "Our cities must have the power to severely limit condo conversion." Because otherwise Cambridge and several other cities have only a .5-per-cent housing vacancy rate, evicted tenants can seldom relocate in their own communities...
Cambridge officials passed legislation last year designed to limit condo conversions by requiring developers to obtain "removal permits...
...lawyer that looks at this ordinance would never vote for it, because it makes no damn sense," councilor Joseph Tierney said. "We can't not have condo conversion, because that's unreasonable and unfair," Tierney added...