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...motion before the Council sponsored by the CRA would authorize the development of the "Golden Triangle" area of Kendall Square for retail and office buildings, a motor hotel, off-street parking facilities and apartment units...
Representatives of other organizations such as the East Cambridge Planning Team, the League of Women Voters, Vietnam Veterans Against the War and Humans Against Loud Trucks also spoke against passage of the motion. Several decried the effects of highrise buildings and increased traffic that they said the CRA plan would bring to adjacent neighborhoods...
...East Cambridge residents appeared dissatisfied with the measure. "The CRA has never really been in favor of jobs for working class people," Darleen Bonislawski of Hard Times told the Council. "They want to make a prosperous metropolitan city for students, professionals...
Sister Loretta Monahan, another spokesman for Hard Times, said after the meeting that the CRA plan represented a gradual "piecemeal" takeover of Kendall Square by business and white-collar interests. "If we didn't organize and get the people here, the City Council would have passed the resolution," she said. "We don't trust them...
...maintained that if the CRA proposal for the Golden Triangle were approved, the agency would return in the near future with similar plans for the Quadrangle, despite its statement to the contrary. Hard Times has suggested that the City use the land for working class housing and replace the property tax with a steeply graduated income...