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...council also refused to approve a more limited hiring freeze that would have applied only to departments with 50 or more employees. "That would be a gunshot way of making cuts. Across-the-board cuts indicate that those who propose them have not done their homework," Councilor Thomas W. Danehy said last night...
Those long-range and short-term dilemmas fuel efforts to keep the status quo. "My vision is essentially conservative," Sullivan, perhaps the most liberal councilor, says. "I would really like to see Cambridge continue as a home for moderate-and low-income families. And I would like to see their breadwinners be able to find jobs appropriate to the level of their education and skill in and around the city." So far, rent control and the condo conversion ordinance are the main bulwarks in the battle against gentrification. But they may not be permanent solutions--landlords soon discovered the condo...
...lines. The suits surrounding the construction of the extension itself have quieted down, but many residents are leery about a subway that ends in Alewife, an old and lonely industrial site where a huge parking lot is planned. "Wherever a transit system terminates, it has a negative effect," City Councilor Thomas W. Danehy says. He adds that the parking lot "attracts car thieves and pickpockets, and where you have that, occasionally you get into crimes against persons...
...proposal would have set height and density restrictions on land in the Alewife area and commit the city to renovations such as paving streets, installing lights and fixing drains. The chief objection to it came from Councilor David Sullivan, who says, "the city has an affirmative duty" to shape economic development in an effort to maintain blue-collar industry in the city. High-tech industry is fine, so long as traditional industry also expands, he adds. "There is a real risk of gentrification in the city's work force. The jobs that will be provided could go overwhelmingly to college...
...what the hurry is," Councilor Thomas W. Danehy told the council recently. "Let's take the time to plan--to smooth out, to hone, to refine," he added...