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In a highly confrontational meeting last night, the City Council once again postponed action on a home rule petition designed to strengthen the enforcement of rent control in Cambridge.
The petition, if passed by both the council and the state Legislature, would reinstate a provision of the city's rent control ordinance struck down by the Supreme Judicial Court last month.
The court ruled that Cambridge could not prevent owners of a block of rent-controlled apartments from selling them individually. The homerule petition would allow the city again to ban such sales.
Vellucci, who said he had not missed a meeting in his 38 years on the council, said that Sullivan's petition had come up for reconsideration several times in the past month, but had been defeated each time because CCA-backed councillors were absent.
After last night's meeting, Sullivan said he planned to reintroduce the petition again at the council meeting next Monday. Unless a special council session is called, that meeting will be the last chance to send the measure to the state Legislature this year.