Word: simplex
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mitchell ruled that because the board let MIT present evidence that the project would increase the city's housing stock, it must also let members of the anti-development Simplex Steering Committee testify that University Park would push rents up, congest traffic and disrupt its neighbors in other ways...
Members of the Simplex Steering Committee and the Cambridge Tenants' Union who appealed the board's April decision said the judge's ruling gave them a chance to present a case for the harmful effects of the development on future rent-controlled housing in the area...
...Cambridge Rent control Board last night found the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in violation of rent control ordinances on a plot of land known as the Simplex site, but it did not impose the penalty recommended by the examiner who reported on the case...
...They have ruined this housing," said John Mason, the lawyer for the Simplex Steering Committee, a neighborhood group that has been fighting MIT's development plans for almost 15 years...
...very important that MIT be found in violation both of the removal ordinance and the full occupancy ordinance," said Bill Cavelinni, chairman of the Simplex Steering Committee. "I'm disappointed that it wasn't found a flagrant violation, because if it was flagrant it would justify a severe penalty...