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The Cambridge City Council last night sent the petition, prompted by the recent purchase of several homes by Lesley College, to the Planning Board for a hearing.
Signed by more than a dozen residents in the Wendell, Mellon and Oxford St. area, the petition calls for "a temporary moratorium on conversion of residential structures to educational and religious uses...to provide time for the city to implement" permanent regulations on the use of institutional property.
These regulations will be ready for a city council vote by February, community development officials said yesterday.
"I think that it is too early for us to take any kind of position on that," Lewis A. Armistead, acting assistant vice president for government and community affairs, said yesterday.
The moratorium petition will go to the city planning board for final consideration. If the moratorium is accepted, building permits granted between the time of its adoption by the council and the planning board vote will not protect developers.