Word: easements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...city was planning to make the site a Cambridge landmark, said Cambridge Historical Commission official Sally Zimmerman. Such a move would have given the city the same right to approve changes, but the building's owners asked for the easement before the city acted...
Although the easement would restrict changes to the building's facade, the owners could still remodel the inside...
White said the building's owners sought an easement to forestall its declaration as a landmark, which would have given Cambridge the same amount of control over the building. And the commission's executive director, Charles M. Sullivan, said the owners could get a tax benefit from the easement that landmark status would not confer...
...There could potentially be a tax break," Plympton said. But he said the group's main motive in seeking the easement agreement is to "preserve a building that we think is an important part of Brattle Street...
Sally Zimmerman, also from the Commission, said, "The standard motive for [seeking] a protective easement is to protect the building after you sell it." But, she said, the owners sought the easement, "I presume because they want the building to be preserved," adding that she doubted that they would sell...