Word: exemptible
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...panel will hold another hearing later this month and consult with city officials before taking action on the "home rule" petition, which would apply only to Cambridge, and would allow a city review of universities' expansion into certain zoning districts. Harvard and other educational institutions are currently exempt from zoning laws under state statutes...
Assistant City Manager David Vickery said the bill, sent to the State House last month by the City Council, would prevent institutions from buying property and then converting it from taxable housing property to tax-exempt "educational uses." "It is getting a little bit ridiculous," Vickery said, adding "a lot of property is being taken off the tax rolls...
Organizations, including Fair Share, the Mission Hill Health Movement and the Residents United to Stop Harvard on Mission Hill (RUSH), have long opposed the tax-exempt status of the Longwood area hospitals...
...Medical Area Services Organization (MASCO), which is owned in part by Harvard, "asked us to figure out a way to show the positive economic and financial aspects of these hospitals, as it would have a salutary effect on easing the long run discussions about tax-exempt property in the city." James E. Howell, a senior vice president of the First National Bank of Boston, which performed the study, said...
...Stone, an associate professor at UMass in Boston, said yesterday that the resources to pay for the $250 million in hospital jobs comes from medical payments, medical insurance premiums, and taxes paid by the people of the city of Boston. He added that because the hospitals are tax-exempt, but also receive city services, "home owners ultimately end up paying for the city services to these institutions...