Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Richard Segal '60, told of amusements in the early years. "We would shut off the water in 1705 [Sacramento street, the other co-op house] around 5:00 p.m. on Saturday afternoons. We would decorate the house for Halloween with skeletons, because this was a residential neighborhood then and kids would come to trick-or-treat here...
Neat little packets of marijuana, coke and even heroin nestling against the vitamins at the neighborhood drugstore? And selling at a low Government-set price with a guarantee of purity? It sounds like a black comedy or perhaps a gaudy hallucination. In fact, it is the extreme version of a new policy course being advocated in dead seriousness by a growing number of those frustrated by the futility of the drug war. The 74 years of federal prohibition that have passed since the Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914 have been a costly and abject failure, they say, and the effort...
Large new office buildings mean more traffic and parking congestion and more yuppies who can afford to pay higher prices and higher rents. Higher prices and higher rents mean the neighborhood will become unliveable, especially for those who are less wealthy...
...city council has waffled in dealing with the problems of displacement and gentrification, but a response may finally come from the residents and businesses of the Square. In response to the scheduled development, several neighborhood groups have put together a plan to rezone the Square. Their plan is to place a two- or three-story limit on new development and to require the developers to include affordable housing in their buildings...
...attempt to slow the development and to "get control of the city back from the developers" as one of the neighborhood group's leaders said. The plan will not solve the Square's problems but it is certainly a good first step. Cambridge certainly needs more affordable housing (rather than luxury apartments and expensive hotels) and the atmosphere of the Square needs to be preserved...