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Loeb Make-up crew
The city council instructed the planning office to draw up the ordinance last summer after obtaining state approval for the plan.
"Institutions are among the greatest destabilizing factors for our neighborhoods--they are like monsters eating up our city," councilor Mary Ellen Preusser told the council at the time.
The shortage did not affect major U.S. customers until early this year when one major newsprint supplier, Georgia-Pacific, converted its mills to produce other forms of paper. To make matters worse, demand, paced by record newspaper sales, shot up.
"I don't think the MBTA was going to do anything until the heat started coming," he said. "I think they were going to chalk that (repairs and extra maintenance) up to just another loss."