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File #: 24-1151    Version: 1
Type: Mayor's Request Status: Approved
File created: 8/15/2024 In control: City Council
On agenda: 8/22/2024 Final action: 9/19/2024
Enactment date: 9/12/2024 Enactment #: 217637
Title: Requesting approval of a Maintenance Easement and License Agreement for 0 Middlesex and Kensington Avenue.
Indexes: Finance-Assessing, Finance-Auditing, Finance-Budget, Finance-Grants Development, Finance-Procurement & Contracting Services, Finance-Treasury, Infrastructure-Engineering, Law
Code sections: Property/Land Transaction -
Attachments: 1. Final Easement and License Agreement 0 Middlesex and Kensington Ave 8.14.24, 2. Greystar - 74 Middlesex - Civic Space License and Easement Plan

Agenda Summary

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Requesting approval of a Maintenance Easement and License Agreement for 0 Middlesex and Kensington Avenue.

 

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Official Text

To the Honorable City Council:

 

The Mayor respectfully requests that this Council approve

 

1) the grant of an easement from 74 M Property Owner, LLC, (the “Developer”) to the City for a neighborhood park civic space easement on property shown as “0 Middlesex Avenue” on the easement plan, said park to be dedicated to public use in perpetuity; and

 

2) the grant of a maintenance easement to the Developer in order to maintain the neighborhood park civic space on property shown as “0 Middlesex Avenue” on the easement plan; and

 

3) the grant of a license to maintain hardscape improvements located in a portion of the City’s Kensington Ave right of way shown as the “licensed area” on the plan that will also be used for emergency access to the park.

 

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

 

Respectfully Submitted,

Katjana Ballantyne, Mayor