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Proposed by councilor Walter J. Sullivan, the amendment would exempt tenants at 36-42 Linnaean St. and 4-6 Washington Ave from a city law requiring tenants to obtain city permits before purchasing their units as condominiums...
...rest of the incumbents appear headed for victory, and Daniel F. Clinton, a former councilor, will replace Kevin Crane '71 who did not run for re-election...
Among other candidates, former councilor Mary Ellen Preusser collected only 536 votes, and unaffiliated challenger John St, George...
...increasing attack on rent control stems from the often inefficient and nearly always painfully slow operation of the rent control board, which oversees the entire system and acts as a final judge in all disputes between tenants and landlords. Even the strongest supporters of rent control--including incumbent councilor David Sullivan, who drafted the primary condo control legislation--agree that rent control board procedures should be streamlined...
...councilor David Wylie, considered by many to be in the greatest danger of losing his council seat, recently pleaded with a group of tenants seeking condominium removal permits to remember their former plight as rent-control tenants. "Your financial situation has changed," Wylie told the tenants, "but the members of this council pledged to preserve rent control cannot change even if it is only two weeks before the election." Mary Allen Wilkes is the chief standard-bearer of the condo forces...