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File #: 24-0540    Version: 1
Type: Mayor's Request Status: Approved
File created: 4/10/2024 In control: City Council
On agenda: 4/11/2024 Final action: 5/1/2024
Enactment date: 4/25/2024 Enactment #: 216992
Title: Requesting approval of a pedestrian access easement on Charlestown Place, approval of a grant of easements over certain alleys located in the D2.2 parcel, and approval of a grant of license from the City to Union Square RELP.
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. US2 - D2.2 Sidewalk and Alley Easement-1605425166-v9, 2. 2301343-EASE_(stamped_2024-04-09)

Agenda Summary

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Requesting approval of a pedestrian access easement on Charlestown Place, approval of a grant of easements over certain alleys located in the D2.2 parcel, and approval of a grant of license from the City to Union Square RELP.

 

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Official Text

To the Honorable City Council:

 

The Mayor respectfully requests that this Council:

 

1) approve a grant of a pedestrian access easement on Charlestown Place from Union Square RELP D2.2 Owner, LLC (“Union Square RELP”) to the City for the purpose of pedestrian access as further specified in the easement; and

 

2) approve a grant of easements over certain alleys located in the D2.2 parcel known as Milk Alley, Bennett Court and Charlestown place for public access to bike lanes, bicycle parking and access to the  MTBA station, as well as vehicular access as further specified in the easement; and

 

3) approve a grant of license from the City to Union Square RELP for performing maintenance obligations in connection with the sidewalk on Charlestown Place.

 

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