Carole K. Bellew, a committee member of the East Cambridge Planning Study, said that the study of the neighborhood, which has the largest amount of land available for development, was not intended to interfere with the rezoning plan.
"East Cambridge suffers the most because we have the most open space to be built on," Bellew said.. "We never, ever anticipated being given on a plate the rezoning of East Cambridge."
She added that in leaving rezoning to the Planning Study, the City Council would be postponing indefinitely the rezoning of that area.
"If you've noticed how much work people have to to in order to get anything done...the problem is that to get seven votes in any petition is almost impossible," Bellew said.
The result, she said, may be that East Cambridge will not get any rezoning.
"We may end up with nothing, if you look at it realistically," Bellew said.
East Cambridge is currently governed by the Larkin Petition, an 18-month moratorium on development in the neighborhood that was approved by the council in Jan. 2000.
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