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The petition aims to produce more affordable housing, restrict new development and reduce traffic in the city by reforming specific zoning guidelines for Cambridge's neighborhoods.
"If you've noticed how much work people have to to in order to get anything done...the problem is that to get seven votes in any petition is almost impossible," Bellew said.
East Cambridge is currently governed by the Larkin Petition, an 18-month moratorium on development in the neighborhood that was approved by the council in Jan. 2000.
But though the board was supposed to take 18 months to create its proposal, it took three years, as the Planning Board only submitted its petition Sept. 5.
"If nothing else they probably have enough registered voters [10] to sign a petition, which is allowed under the ordinance," Hammer says.