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Instead, she said, she hoped the referendum would prompt the city council to send a petition to the statehouse.
4. The home-rule petition for rent control is very important. The people in the city want rent control, and rent control is taken away by the state-wide initiative.
2. I chair the University Relations committee of the city council. I believe we began a great dialogue with the university with the zoning petition, taking a big jump forward in a very strained relationship between the city and the University.
If Proposition One is passed, the city would generate a so-called “home rule” petition and send it to the state legislature. Before rent control could become a reality in Cambridge, the legislature would have to pass a law exempting it from the statewide ordinance...
“I think this is unlike any other home rule petition,” he said. “If we do succeed at the ballot tomorrow, the petition will be sent forward by the people of Cambridge and not the City Council. I think that makes a...