Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives
in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same,
as follows:
SECTION 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of section three of chapter seven hundred and fifty-nine of the acts of nineteen hundred and seventy-nine, the city of Pittsfield is hereby authorized to utilize a certain parcel of land, previously conveyed by the department of mental health to the city of Pittsfield pursuant to section one of said chapter seven hundred and fifty-nine, for the purpose of developing affordable residential housing. Said parcel is shown as a parcel of 10.582 acres on a plan of land entitled "Survey of Land in Pittsfield, Mass. prepared for the City of Pittsfield" prepared by Dennis C. Drumm & Associates, dated June 14, 1989 which is on file in the office of the Pittsfield Redevelopment Authority.
SECTION 2. Section 3 of chapter 759 of the acts of 1979 is hereby amended by inserting after the word "park", in line 2, the words:- , affordable housing.