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William Cavellini, a leader of the Simplex Steering Commitee's campaign against the project, acknowledges that Graham extracted more housing from MIT, but says she neglected to consult the committee. For example, he says Graham did not tell him when the Community Development Department redefined the meaning of low-and moderate-income housing. When he pointed the change out to her, Cavellini says, "she just shrugged her shoulders...
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...
...think the court has reversed what was egregious on behalf of the Rent Control Board," said William S. Noble, a member of the Simplex Steering Committee and a resident of one of the buildings that MIT proposes to relocate...
...objection is that [MIT's plan] is not taking into account that there are 20 other units in the area which will be picked off in the same way," said William Cavelinni, a member of the Simplex Steering Committee...