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...Cambridge City Council voted 8-1 to grant a historic preservation easement to the Fly Club. While the building it inhabits may be old, the club itself is unfortunately a bit of Cambridge history that we would be better off not preserving. While we recognize that the council’s power was limited, we would have hoped for a stronger symbolic vote to register the city’s opposition to the club’s exclusive nature...
...long as the money goes to improving the club’s building, alumni of the final club will be able to legally write off donations to their old haunt after a Cambridge City Council vote approved their preservation easement...
After reviving the discussion last night, Braude asked Deputy City Solicitor Donald Drisdell whether the council could grant the easement only on the condition that women be admitted after some defined period of time...
...Drisdell said that, since the motion was simply to approve a contract that the Fly Club had already made with the nonprofit Historic Massachusetts, Inc., the City Council didn’t have the power to limit the club’s easement...
After Drisdell’s report, the council voted 8 to 1 to approve the easement...