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...ruling found that Rickard had renovated and combined several apartments at 52-54 Fairmont St.--eliminating three rent-controlled apartments--without filing for a removal permit...
...rent control board hearing ruled in January that Rickard had knowingly violated the city's removal permit ordinance, enacted in 1979 to keep landlords from illegally removing apartments from rent control or converting them to condominiums--diminishing the city's stock of rent-controlled housing...
...addition, the ruling found that Rickard told the property's buyer, Arthur Abbott, that she had illegally converted the property. The board recommended that Abbott and his partner, Victor Balk, be ordered to restore the building to its original state...
...Although Rickard was not available for comment yesterday, she testified before the hearing that she knew the building was not exempt from rent control. The Board is expected to rule on the hearing next week...
Supporters of the city's 19-year old rent control ordinance said yesterday that Rickard's activities posed one of the most serious threats to the system that the city has yet seen...