Word: mta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attempt by the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority to obtain the Bennett St. MTA Yards by the right of eminent domain may develop into a major court battle, legal experts told the CRIMSON yesterday...
...Monday, City Councillor Daniel J. Hayes urged that Cambridge declare the Bennett St. Yards an Open Blighted Area and take possession of the property "for development or sale for tax purposes," but there is serious doubt whether the City can legally force the MTA to sell the land at its fair market value...
Lawyers pointed out that the City and its Redevelopment Authority must obtain the right to exercise the power of eminent domain from the Commonwaltth of Massachusetts. They stressed that the MTA, as a special agency of the state, also obtains its power from the Commonwealth...
...member of the Cambridge City Council yesterday urged that the city act to acquire the Bennett St. MTA Yards under the Urban Renewal Act because "there is now nothing to prevent Harvard University from grabbing all the land for educational purposes...
Hayes said that he hopes the Redevelopment Authority will declare the MTA Yards an Open Blighted Area, but admitted that such a ruling, the only one under which Cambridge could legally acquire the land, "may not be possible to obtain...