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Two proposals have been submitted to the council—the so-called “Carlson petition,” which was developed by neighborhood leaders, and a revised version submitted by the city’s planning board, who called the Carlson petition “too punitive?...
The Ordinance Committee, the arm of the city council that considers zoning, held a public hearing last week in which residents spoke overwhelmingly in favor of the Carlson petition.
After his narrow victory, Davis promptly announced an astonishing state budget deficit of $38 billion. This wasn't entirely his fault-the recession had caused capital-gains tax receipts to plummet from $17 billion to $4 billion-but Davis had not been honest about the looming disaster during the campaign...
Cob Carlson, the first signer of the petition that is now named for him, said the plan had the support of “over 95 percent of the neighborhood.”
State Representative Alice K. Wolf, D-Cambridge, told the Ordinance Committee she hoped they would support the Carlson petition and limit development in the neighborhood in a way they had not done in the past.