Word: councilor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year from now Harvard Square will be the site, of the first of three Cambridge Discovery, Inc. information booths--the result of City Councilor Francis H. Duchay's effort to increase knowledge of the city to both residents and tourists. According to a descriptive report of the project, "the groups benefitting from this integrated program include tourists and local residents and the business community and municipality...
...similar" referendum, calling for a nuclear free zone in Cambridge, was defeated by a 60-40 margin in 1983. City Councilor Alice Wolf recalls that defense industries nationwide contributed over $600,000 to defeat the measure...
...says David Clem, one of the real estate developers spearheading the opposition. A former city councilor. Clem computes that when the costs of construction delay--caused by the new permit process--are added in. Sullivan's three percent increase in costs becomes 15 percent. And that, he says, would freeze development...
...Development is causing demand for housing and developers should have to meet that demand," says the councilor. "No one should have be able to realize the benefits of the Cambridge location without assuming some of the cost...
Still, the business community will continue to insist that rent control be modified. And changes may be in the cards. Observers say that reforms could be one of the major focuses of councilor Saundra Graham's upcoming conference on housing...