Word: counciler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...absence of pro-tenant Councillor Francis H. Duehay '55, the City Council last night defeated a home rule petition designed to aid enforcement of the city's rent control ordinance...
...special council session called by Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci, the council voted 4-3 not to send the petition to the state legislature. If passed by the both the council and the legislature, the measure would reinstate a 1981 law struck down last month by the Supreme Judicial Court...
...home rule petition, if passed by the city council and the state legislature, would circumvent the court ruling by giving Cambridge the jurisdiction to ban the sale of individual apartments from a block of housing...
...council postponed action on a measure that would have partially addressed this problem by asking City Manager Robert W. Healy and the Rent Control Board to draft new regulatory language allowing landlords to bequeath individual units to their surviving heirs...
...Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 said that he intended to push ahead with a plan to reserve at least 50 percent of the spaces in the residential houses for random assignment, later saying that such a plan might not go into effect this year. The Undergraduate Council is slated to debate the randomization issue on Sunday...