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...action down at City Hall last spring, a first-term city councillor offered a series of scandalous proposals which would weaken, if not destroy, rent control and Cambridge's method of providing low-cost housing to its neediest citizens. Throughout the whole legislative debate, however, Harvard's large legislative lobbying staff was conspicuously quiet on the matter--and no wonder, given the University's poor track record on rent control...
...ordinance, if passed, would revise an existing regulation which prohibits smoking in specific public places, such as auditoriums and grocery stores and requires that a quarter of restaurant seating be reserved for non-smokers. According to Councillor Sullivan, the new proposal would primarily "close some of the loopholes" that exist in the current ordinance...
...ordinance's sponsors, "second-hand smoking," or the inhalation of smoke by non-smokers, prompted much of their concern. Russell, who co-sponsored the proposal, said her husband, the late Mayor Leonard J. Russell, had reacted strongly to second-hand smoke. He succumbed to throat cancer last year. Councillor Russell is asthmatic...
...city wants to promote competition, but not to the point where the traffic and parking situation get so bad that they throttle activity. That's what we're talking about now," said Councillor David Sullivan, who opposes the development...
According to Councillor Alice Wolf, Wasserman asked that the Zoning Board's decision be made final so that he can appeal it legally without taking the extra 60 days. She said the communities have rebelled against him "in response to a very unresponsive developer who is...not living within the zoning code and now he's being picked up on every point...