Word: controls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rent control board hearing ruled in January that Rickard had knowingly violated the city's removal permit ordinance, enacted in 1979 to keep landlords from illegally removing apartments from rent control or converting them to condominiums--diminishing the city's stock of rent-controlled housing...
Although Rickard was not available for comment yesterday, she testified before the hearing that she knew the building was not exempt from rent control. The Board is expected to rule on the hearing next week...
Supporters of the city's 19-year old rent control ordinance said yesterday that Rickard's activities posed one of the most serious threats to the system that the city has yet seen...
Former Cambridge Civic Association President Jack E. Martinelli said that he believed Rickard had similarly evaded the rent control laws on several other occasions. Referring to the incidents described in the CTU letter, he said "The list could easily be doubled...
...alleged violations are serious enough to warrant temporarily suspending Rickard from the BZA--which reviews requests for exemptions from the city's zoning laws--until the rent control board takes final action, Martinelli said...