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Public Facilities Commission Meeting (BTD)

The presenter is the Boston Transportation Department.

You can also watch the meeting on Boston City TV at Comcast channel 24, RCN channel 13, and on boston.gov/boston-city-tv.

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  1. VOTE 1: Gregory T. Rooney, Acting Commissioner, Boston Transportation Department (BTD) Brian P. Vaillancourt, Manager, Planning and Permitting Department, AECOM
    Order of Taking: Various property interests located in Roxbury for the Melnea Cass Boulevard Reconstruction project.
     
    At a regularly convened meeting of the Public Facilities Commission of the City of Boston, held on August 14, 2019, it was VOTED and ORDERED:
     
    The Public Facilities Commission of the City of Boston, County of Suffolk, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, duly appointed, qualified, and acting as such, on behalf of the City of Boston by virtue of and in accordance with the authority of the provisions of Chapter 642 of the Acts of 1966, and Chapter 79 of the Massachusetts General Laws, and any and every other power and authority which is hereunto in any way enabling, hereby takes, on behalf of the City of Boston, and for the public purposes of installing, constructing, reconstructing, repairing and replacing portions of Melnea Cass Boulevard, shown on certain plans entitled “Melnea Cass Boulevard Reconstruction, Easements Plan of Land, Melnea Cass Boulevard – Albany Street – Columbus Avenue, Roxbury, MA,” dated August 9, 2019 prepared by A-Plus Construction Services Corp., recorded with the Suffolk Registry of Deeds in Plan Book _____, Page ______ (the “Plans”), the following interests in land:
     
    Permanent Easements:  Non-exclusive permanent easements for all purposes for which public ways are used in the City of Boston, including, but not limited to, public access on foot, or by wheelchair, including providing a pedestrian path compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act, to pass and re-pass, and for construction, grading, re-grading, operation, maintenance, repair and replacement of roads, sidewalks, together with related utilities, access ramps, traffic signs and poles for traffic signals and street lights, landscaping and plantings, in, over, under, through, across, upon and along certain properties, identified as “E-1,” “E-2,” “E-3,” “E-4,” “E-7,” “SW-4,” “SW-5,” “SW-6” and “D-1,” including the right to construct, install, maintain, repair, replace, relocate and abandon in place roads and sidewalks, to enter upon and/or authorize others to enter upon, from time to time, the said properties for all the foregoing purposes and at any time, or from time to time, without any further payment to the property owners, to cut, trim and/or remove trees, brush, overhanging branches, and any other obstructions to the extent the City deems necessary to clear or keep clear the easement areas (the “Permanent Easement Premises”).  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the rights acquired with respect to the Permanent Easement Premises extend one (1) foot subsurface (measured from the top of the existing sidewalk) and not above any first story constructed at the building, but in no event more than ten (10) feet above the existing sidewalk.
     
    Temporary Construction Easements: Non-exclusive temporary construction easements for the purpose of constructing the Project, identified below, and for all uses incidental thereto, including, without limitation, temporary construction easements to facilitate adjacent construction/reconstruction of roads, sidewalks, paths, driveways, entryways, lights and signals, necessary or convenient to the Project, in, over, under, across, upon and along the parcels of land identified as “TE-5,” “TE-6,” “TE-7,” “TE-9,” “TE-11,” “TE-12,” “TE-13,” “TE-14,” “TE-15,” “TE-16,” “TE-17”and “TE-18” (the “Temporary Construction Easement Premises,” together with the Permanent Easement Premises, the “Easement Premises”), including the right to access, pass and re-pass over, under, across, upon and along the Easement Premises, by foot and motor vehicle, including heavy equipment, for the aforesaid purposes.
     
    SW-6 and TE-14
    Interest(s) Acquired:   SW-6 (184± S.F.) (Reconstruct Sidewalk to Existing Limits) and TE-14 (1,291± S.F.) (Grading at Back of Sidewalk)
    Property Address:       1115-1135 Tremont Street, Boston, Massachusetts
     
    SW-4 and TE-15
    Interest(s) Acquired:   SW-4 (681± S.F.) (Reconstruct Sidewalk to Existing Limits) and TE-15 (738± S.F.) (Grading at Back of Sidewalk)
    Property Address:       775 Columbus Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts
     
    SW-5
    Interest(s) Acquired:   SW-5 (486± S.F.) (Reconstruct Sidewalk to Existing Limits)
    Property Address:       1125 Tremont Street and 835 Columbus Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts
     
    TE-16
    Interest(s) Acquired:   TE-16 (1,024± S.F.) (Grading at Back of Sidewalk)
    Property Address:       Melnea Cass Boulevard and Tremont Street, Boston, Massachusetts
     
    E-1 and TE-5
    Interest(s) Acquired:   E-1 (2,228± S.F.) (Sidewalk Reconstruction) and TE-5 (2,558± S.F.) (Grading at Back of Sidewalk)
    Property Address:       1010 Harrison Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts
     
    TE-11 and TE-13
    Interest(s) Acquired:   TE-11 (552± S.F.) (Grading at Back of Sidewalk) and TE-13 (232± S.F.) (Matching Sidewalk Limits into Existing Sidewalk)
    Property Address:       450 Melnea Cass Boulevard, Boston, Massachusetts
     
    TE-12
    Interest(s) Acquired:   TE-12 (63± S.F.) (Matching Sidewalk Limits into Existing Sidewalk)
    Property Address:       Ball Street, Boston, Massachusetts
     
    TE-18
    Interest(s) Acquired:   TE-18 (15,139± S.F.) (Bringing Columbus Avenue into Layout)
    Property Address: Columbus Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts
     
    E-7 and TE-17
    Interest(s) Acquired:   E-7 (1,616± S.F.) (Sidewalk Reconstruction) and TE-17 (429± S.F.) (Grading at Back of Sidewalk)
    Property Address:       980 Harrison Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts
     
    E-2 and TE-6
    Interest(s) Acquired:   E-2 (2,012± S.F.) (Sidewalk Reconstruction) and TE-6 (6,339± S.F.) (Grading at Back of Sidewalk)
    Property Address:       Melnea Cass Boulevard, Boston, Massachusetts
     
    E-4 and TE-7
    Interest(s) Acquired:   E-4 (2,015± S.F.) (Sidewalk Reconstruction) and TE-7 (1,051± S.F.) (Construction at Back of Sidewalk)
    Property Address:       906 Albany Street, Boston, Massachusetts
     
    E-3, D-1 and TE-9
    Interest(s) Acquired:   E-3 (6,282± S.F.) (Sidewalk Reconstruction); D-1 (4,754± S.F.) (Bio-Retention Area) and TE-9 (2,962± S.F.) (Grading at Back of Sidewalk)
    Property Address:       Melnea Cass Boulevard, Harrison Avenue and Albany Street, Boston, Massachusetts
     
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