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...delay in electing a mayor can simply be attributed to the schedule. After voting Jan. 3 and Jan. 10, the council has had only one regular meeting in the past three weeks, on Jan. 24. At that meeting, the council engaged in a heated debate before passing the Larkin petition--a motion which puts an 18-month moratorium, with several exemptions, on development in East Cambridge--at 12:30 a.m. The council decided then that it was too late to take a vote for mayor...
Instead, the council spent several hours deliberating before they approved, with four amendments, the Larkin petition, which will put an 18-month moratorium on development in East Cambridge...
...petition, circulated by resident Shannon Larkin, aims to slow the commercial construction boom in the Kendall Square area. Petition signers say the encroaching firms eliminate green space, push out smaller stores, and bring unwanted traffic...
...economy in Cambridge is changing, the population is changing," Born said, adding that the Larkin petition was the first step for the council to create a new vision for the city that valued quality of life in addition to commercial developement...
...need to plan in East Cambridge," Larkin said. "We need to control the traffic...