Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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David E. Sullivan, the most outspoken proponent of rent control, announced his withdrawal from the 1989 council race this fall, citing a need to spend time with his family. And Saundra M. Graham, a fellow rent control supporter, says she is retiring from elected office to work with the League of Afro-American Women, a local minority entrepreneurship organization...
Vellucci has spent most of his 34 years on the council providing the key swing vote for liberal programs such as rent control, while representing a conservative East Cambridge constituency...
...least the past decade, the Council has been divided between four conservative Independents, with their commitment to neighborhood and business concerns, and four liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) members, who favor rent control and limits on development...
...Independents secured a fifth pro-business, conservative seat on the Council, they would almost certainly weaken or abolish the rent control law and would probably cut zoning restrictions to encourage development. They would also most likely keep Healy in office...
Adding further excitement to the 1989 race is the presence on the ballot of Proposition 1-2-3, a binding referendum whose chief provision would let rent-control tenants buy their units as condominiums after living there two years or more...