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File #: 209693    Version: 1
Type: Mayor's Request Status: Approved
File created: 2/6/2020 In control: City Council
On agenda: 2/13/2020 Final action: 3/12/2020
Enactment date: 2/13/2020 Enactment #: 209693
Title: Requesting acceptance of two easements over DCR land in Assembly Square.
Code sections: Property/Land Transaction -
Attachments: 1. ASQ DCAM-COS Great River Rd & Shared Use Path Easement, 2. ASQ G St-Great River Rd Shared Use Path easement Plan No 811 of 2011, 3. ASQ DCAM-COS I&I Drainage Easement, 4. ASQ I&I Drainage Easement Plan

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Requesting acceptance of two easements over DCR land in Assembly Square.

 

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To the Honorable City Council:

 

I respectfully request that this Honorable City Council consider and accept easements over land owned by the Department of Conservation and Recreation ("DCR") in Assembly Square.  The first easement gives the City an easement for Great River Road and the Shared Use Path, while the second grants the City a drainage easement for Infiltration and Inflow purposes.

 

Conveyance of the easements was one of the conditions of an Art. 97 land swap between Assembly Square developer Federal Realty Investment Trust ("FRIT") and DCR.  The monetary consideration stated in the easement deeds is the value of in kind work already performed by FRIT; DCR requires no payment from the City for the easements.

 

The easements were to have been granted by the state and accepted by the City in 2011.  Plans showing the easements have been recorded; however, the easement documents were never executed.  This oversight was discovered in connection with the due diligence undertaken for the recent closing of FRIT's I-Cubed bonding.

 

I have attached both easements and their corresponding recorded plans.

 

My staff will be available to answer any questions you may have. Thank you for your consideration of this matter.

 

Respectfully Submitted,

Joseph A. Curtatone, Mayor