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...councillors succeeded in substituting a compromise zoning plan prepared by the city's Community Development Department (CCD) for a more restrictive petition submitted by the Simplex Steering Committee, a neighborhood group, but were unable to rally the seven votes required by state law to change existing zoning...
...acquired its major portion of the property--the Simplex area--from the old Simplex cable and Wire Company in 1970. It did not acquire the full 27-acre site until 1980, however, and it began seeking a developer last spring
...previous debate on the issue, the city council has tended to mirror the sharp division that exists within Cambridgeport between MIT, the principal landowner, and the neighborhood group, which calls itself the Simplex Steering Committee. None of the four zoning petitions brought before the council in the last two years has even reached the stage of a final vote...
...agreement on zoning the area is now urgent, committee members say, because MIT will soon select a developer for 27 acres land that it owns in Cambridgeport called the Simplex Development Area. Current zoning laws would allow MIT to build virtually whatever it wants on the property, and the neighborhood group is pushing for more restrictive zoning...
Should the council not pass a rezoning ordinance before MIT's developer obtains building permits, the Simplex area would be free from any subsequent changes to the zoning of Cambridgeport...