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Although the Cambridge Board of Zoning Appeals currently has the authority to grant variances that allow business to set up shop in residential neighborhoods, CCLN has submitted a petition to the Planning Board that would change Cambridge's zoning ordinance so that no such variances could be granted there.
The student and alumni divestment movement--in moving from mass protests and the erection of shanties in 1984 and 1985 to the alternative slate of pro-divestment overseers candidates nominated by petition for the past four years--has demonstrated a willingness to continually address the success of its tactics. There...
Changes to the city's zoning laws normally require the approval of six councillors, or six of nine votes, but if the owners of 20 percent of the land in the area affected oppose the change, a seventh vote is necessary. Harvard, which owns about half the land covered under...
Crystal's original petition, which was submitted to the council in January, called for drastic changes in the zoning of the East Harvard Square neighborhood. The change was designed to halt two major developments slated for construction in the area--Harvard's proposed hotel and Graham Gund's "Zero Arrow...
Although the compromise petition slightly increases developers' options in building on the two lots, it would not allow the construction of either project.