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...Cambridge City Council Monday night unanimously ordered the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority (CRA) to revise its plans for developing Kendall Square to place a higher priority on developing blue-collar and non-professional white-collar jobs...
...council also voted, 8-1, to scrap the CRA's previous plans for urban renewal. The previous plan called for one million square feet of office space, 400 luxury apartments and townhouses, 400 hotel suites, a retail shopping mall and a 2800-car garage...
...local community groups have protested against several major CRA proposals, charging the plans would have broadened Cambridge's tax-base at the price of continuing widespread unemployment and inadequate low-income housing for the East Cambridge neighborhood bordering the development areas...
...CRA planners and consultants have contended that development centering on the construction of luxury housing and offices would bring more tax revenue into Cambridge, at the same time creating large numbers of white collar, professional, and technical jobs...
Furthermore, the Joint Subcommittee's inclusion of "non-professional white-collar jobs" in its definition of "blue-collar jobs" may allow the CRA to continue to recommend luxury housing, he said...