RENT CONTROL BD. OF CAMBRIDGE v. CAMBRIDGE TOWER CORP.


394 Mass. 809 (1985)

477 N.E.2d 1011

RENT CONTROL BOARD OF CAMBRIDGE vs. CAMBRIDGE TOWER CORPORATION & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

May 13, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Irving Fishman for Irma M. Fishman & others.

James E. Sandler, for Cambridge Tower Corporation, joined in a brief.

Bruce T. Eisenhut (Patricia A. Cantor with him) for the plaintiff.

Lauren P. Curry, William H. Abrashkin, & Frank I. Smizik, for Massachusetts Tenants Organization & another, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Lawrence B. Simons, Robert E. Litan & Paul W. Kahn, of the District of Columbia, for National Multi-Housing Council, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, LYNCH, & O'CONNOR, JJ.


WILKINS, J.

Under a special act authorizing the regulation of maximum rents of "controlled rental units" in the city of Cambridge, "rental units [as to] which a governmental unit, agency, or authority ... regulates the rents" are excluded from the definition of "controlled rental units." St. 1976, c. 36, § 3 (b) (3) (ii). A Cambridge ordinance concerning the removal from the market of controlled rental units...

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