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Several SPOA members also said that the petition should be rejected because it would prevent property owners from selling units to their children.
But the measure will likely come up for reconsideration at next Monday's regular meeting, according to Councillor David E. Sullivan, the petition's sponsor. Although Vellucci abstained from last night's vote, he generally supports the rent control system. If joined by Vellucci and Duehay, Sullivan and the measure...
The home rule petition, if passed by the city council and the state legislature, would circumvent the court ruling by giving Cambridge the jurisdiction to ban the sale of individual apartments from a block of housing.
Vice Mayor Alice K. Wolf said that passage of the petition would prevent "cheating" by property owners, which she said would result in the illegal conversion of thousands of rent-controlled units.
But the petition faced stiff opposition from members of the Small Property Owners Association (SPOA), who said they should be allowed to sell individual rent-controlled apartments as they pleased. Several said that they were offended by Wolf's reference to "cheating."