Word: councilor
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...council defeated two attempts to delete the footage requirement from the legislation, and one introduced by councilor Kevin Crane '72 to change the footage requirement to 250 feet. "That would have meant we needed Boston Garden instead of Fenway Park," Rosenthal said...
...Councilor Lawrence Frisoli, who voted in favor of deleting the footage requirements told the council that it was "wasting the city's resources by buying a suit...
Leaders of several city tenant organizations and five of Cambridge's nine city councilors told the committee that they favored retaining rent control. "Rent control is one of a number of strategies we have to keep Cambridge a liveable city. Without rent control, the attractiveness of Cambridge to developers would very soon leave it a city of nothing but high-rises," City Councilor Mary Ellen Preusser told the panel...
Cambridge adopted rent control in 1970 to counter what councilor Alfred E. Vellucci called "skyrocketing rents." Fraiman told councilors at a special city council meeting Tuesday night that the emergency that led to adoption of rent control has ended. "If you don't hear our cry, you do so at your own peril," he told the councilors, who must seek re-election this fall...
Ross and other rent control proponents are also supporting a bill, filed by councilor and state representative Saundra Graham, that would tighten up Cambridge's present rent control law by prohibiting owners from evicting tenants in order to convert their apartments into condominiums...