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Back Bay's importance as an integral part of the central city may doom its texture, human scale, and occasionally outstanding buildings. Boston discovered the skyscraper and massive development back in the 1950's. It then had the state legislature pass a special law allowing the Prudential Center to be built on air rights over the Boston and Albany railroad yards...
Some of the credit for the dry field must go to the Harvard soccer managers who roiled a tarp over the goal areas Sunday night when it started to drizzle. Walt Tomford '70 and Jim Law '72 pushed the large tarp over the field, a job usually requiring ten men. "It was a hefty job, and I felt pretty good until this morning when my groin muscles really hurt," Tomford said...
Recent court rulings have held that a Massachusetts city cannot pass a rent control law unless it has such "enabling legislation" from the legislature. The legislature approved it for Boston, and several bills to allow any city in the state to pass rent control are currently before the legislation specifically for Cambridge, so that it would still be able to pass rent control even if the more general, state-wide enabling legislation did not pass...
...rent control law which the council wants permission to pass is that proposed by the Cambridge Housing Convention earlier this year. This bill-twice defeated by the City Council during the summer-would set rents at 1968 levels, allowing yearly increases of up to five per cent on the approval of a rent control board appointed by the City Manager...
Most of the debate at yesterday's meeting centered on the question of whether the council wanted the legislature's permission to pass only the Housing Convention bill, or wished more general permission to pass a rent control law...