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Estimates of the aftereffects of the battle vary. "I think it was a major motivation in pushing the expansion ordinance," Sullivan said, adding that the law, if passed, "will make future 7 Sumner Roads much more difficult." And bad blood lingers, he added. "It was one of the worst defeats for tenants in the last few years. I haven't forgotten it, and I won't for a long time." Armistead, who said "the rules were changed on us in the middle of the game" by the passage of a law requiring all Cambridge developers to obtain permits before removing...
...University was to use the building for some purpose other than rental housing, they would have to ask the city for a "removal permit." Past cases, including the December decision of 7 Sumner Rd., indicate that Harvard will have to show it has replaced the homes with comparable units before a removal permit is granted...
...city rent board official this weekend brought the two-year old battle over a Sumner Rd. apartment building one step closer to its increasingly inevitable end when she recommended that Harvard be granted certificates of eviction for the two apartments where tenants remain...
...full Rent Board follows the recommendation and grants the certificates later this month, as it seems very likely to do, the University will need only permits from Middlesex district court before they can force Sherwin Cooper and Carol Nelson to leave their apartments at 7 Sumner...
...with the verdict, though, and went to the board with a long list of complaints last month. They alleged that they hadn't been notified of the hearing--a complaint the board dismissed--and that Harvard had failed to find them new apartments and inadequately maintained their homes at Sumner...