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Other developments have been greeted with less glee by the city fathers, though. The sharpest worries have been over the rapid growth in condominiums, usually by the conversion of scarce rental apartments. In early winter, it seemed the anticondo forces had gained a distinct upper hand, when the State Supreme Court upheld an ordinance effectively barring condominium conversion. Attempts to expand the scope of the law even farther, though, met stiff opposition this spring, and opponents of condo restrictions and rent controls appear to be gearing up for a major offensive in the November city elections...
About 500 spectators, evenly divided between pro-and anti-condominium forces, cheered and booed for almost five hours until the council passed a heavily amended version of a motion that in its original form would have halted prosecution of those who had bought condominiums in violation of a city ordinance requiring a permit before an apartment is removed from the rental market...
...passed, Councilor Leonard Russell's motion would have made the restrictions on condominium conversion all but unenforceable, several councilors said...
...condominium owner currently being prosecuted told the board she "felt harassed and victimized, not able to eat or sleep." The owner, Carolyn Clinton, added "an awful lot of condo owners are single women in my situation...
Wylie also admonished the condo owners--several of whom testified in shaky voices before the council--against "lending your cases to a political movement." Opponents of rent controls and condominium restrictions have grown more in recent weeks, focusing their attacks on Sullivan and gearing for the November city election...