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File #: 23-0332    Version: 1
Type: Mayor's Request Status: Approved
File created: 3/6/2023 In control: City Council
On agenda: 3/9/2023 Final action: 3/30/2023
Enactment date: 3/23/2023 Enactment #: 215115
Title: Requesting approval of a grant of easement and maintenance agreement for BRE-BMR Assembly I Innovation LLC and BRE-BMR Middlesex LLC.
Indexes: Finance-Assessing, Finance-Auditing, Finance-Budget, Finance-Grants Development, Finance-Procurement & Contracting Services, Finance-Treasury, Infrastructure & Asset Management, Infrastructure-Engineering, Law
Code sections: Property/Land Transaction -
Attachments: 1. 5 Middlesex Ave - Easement and Maintenance-Recorded

Agenda Summary

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Requesting approval of a grant of easement and maintenance agreement for BRE-BMR Assembly I Innovation LLC and BRE-BMR Middlesex LLC.

 

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Official Text

To the Honorable City Council:

 

The Mayor respectfully requests that this Council approve consider and approve a Grant of Easements from BRE-BMR Assembly Innovation I LLC and BRE-BMR-Middlesex LLC, (collectively “the Developer “) to the City for the following:

 1) pedestrian right of way access of no less than five (5) feet wide, 24 hours a day seven days a week and

2) access to ancillary pedestrian areas for the uses specified in the easement and

3)  to install, operate and maintain water and sewer lines, storm water retention and drainage systems (utility easement); and

Consider and approve a Grant of Easements from the City to the Developer for exercising Developer maintenance obligations and for the installation, maintenance and replacement of directional wayfinding and Project signage, utilities serving the Project, seasonal decorations, other facilities and improvements and, subject to City permits, the usage of the same for individual tenants of the Project.

 

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