Session Laws

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 sections forty E to forty J, inclusive, of chapter seven of the General Laws or any other general or special law to the contrary, the commissioner of the division of capital planning and operations is hereby authorized and directed to transfer by deed to the city of Chelsea, for no consideration, and said city of Chelsea is hereby authorized to accept, a parcel of land with the buildings and improvements thereon situated in said city of Chelsea, currently used for recreation and park purposes, and bounded and described as follows:

SOUTHEASTERLY by Carter Street, 26 feet, more or less;

SOUTHEASTERLY by Carter Street along a 190 feet radius curve, 42.60 feet;

EASTERLY by lands now or formerly of Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 121.30 feet;

EASTERLY by lands now or formerly of Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 164.22 feet;

SOUTHEASTERLY by lands now or formerly of Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 72.00 feet;

NORTHERLY by lands now or formerly of City of Chelsea, 265 feet, more or less;

SOUTHWESTERLY by lands now or formerly of City of Chelsea, 430 feet, more or less.

Together with a right of way extending from Carter Street, being on the now or formerly existing bituminous concrete driveway and walkway, commencing west of the now or formerly existing field house and locker building on Carter Street, 175 feet southeasterly of Orange Street, and thence running

NORTHWESTERLY and being 15 feet and 25 feet in width, shown shaded from points A to B on the plan hereinafter mentioned, 315 feet, more or less, thence running

SOUTHWESTERLY and being 10 feet in width, shown shaded from points B to C on said plan, 150 feet, more or less.

The parcel of land described in this section was conveyed by a deed recorded in the Suffolk county registry of deeds in Book 8094, Page 519 and is shown on a plan recorded therewith.

The parcel of land described in this section shall be conveyed to said city of Chelsea for the construction and use of elementary and secondary educational facilities, facilities for community programs and activities, and recreational uses. Ancillary uses of the property may include parking and circulation, support facilities, and replacement park land.

If said city of Chelsea does not commence construction of a school building or buildings on the parcel of land described in this section within five years after the effective date of this act, said parcel of land and the improvements thereon shall revert to the commonwealth, at the option of the commissioner of the division of capital planning and operations.

SECTION 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the city of Chelsea is hereby authorized to change the use, as provided hereinafter, of a parcel of land located in and owned by said city of Chelsea, currently used for recreation and park purposes, and bounded and described as follows:

Bounded by Carter street, Everett avenue, Revere Beach Parkway, and Orange street, which parcel was taken by said city of Chelsea through the powers and authority of the board of park commissioners of said city of Chelsea in eighteen hundred and ninety-seven for playground purposes, and which parcel is more particularly described in an instrument of taking recorded in the Suffolk county registry of deeds in Book 2452, Page 348, exclusive of (i) the parcel of land described in section one of this act, and (ii) a northwesterly portion of the parcel, which portion was reserved by the commonwealth by and through the Massachusetts department of public works and is described in a State Highway Layout recorded in the Suffolk county registry of deeds in Book 7028, Page 503.

Said city of Chelsea is hereby authorized to use the parcel for the construction and use of elementary and secondary educational facilities, facilities for community programs and activities, and recreational uses. Ancillary uses of the parcel may include parking and circulation, support facilities, and replacement park land.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage.