Word: law
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the meeting on Friday, April 11, consist of fifteen members, of whom seven shall be tenure members, of whom seven shall be tenure members and two non-tenure members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, one a professor from the Law School, and five shall be students of whom three shall be undergraduates in Harvard College, one from Radcliffe, and one a student in the Graduate School of Arts and Science. The Committee will choose its won chairman, and all members of the Committee will have equal voting rights...
...Committee on Organization strongly urges that Professor Paul Freund be invited to serve as the member from the Law School...
...passed, the law will provide that in the zoning districts which comprise 85 per cent of Cambridge, the number of "unrelated," i.e., "non-family" persons who can legally occupy an apartment will be only two, instead of the present four. The only exception to the law will be licensed rooming houses and people already living together before the first of next month (but the exception will no longer apply to the apartment once the present roommates move...
Frankly, as the owner of four licensed rooming houses, I would stand to benefit financially from this law, since the demand for my properties by roommates groups would be greatly increased. But it is a ridiculous law; I intend to speak against it at the hearing tonight; and I urge your readers to join me tonight in fighting this discrimination against non-family groups...
...this law as but another attempt to legislate away the current chronic housing shortage in Cambridge by unrealistic bureaucratic rules, instead of attacking the root problem, which is simply that Cambridge has too few apartments and must have more built fast. Unfortunately, though it is little-understood or read by otherwise well-informed Cambridge citizens, the whole Cambridge zoning law is what severely limits substantial new construction. For example, how many readers are aware of the fact that our city has a 35-foot height limit in its biggest zoning district? Shouldn't we question whether this is an appropriate...