HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 5263        FILED ON: 11/17/2010

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 5085

 

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

 

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In the Year Two Thousand Ten

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An Act relative to the environmental review process for a certain parcel of developable land in the city of Cambridge..

 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

Notwithstanding any general or special law, rule or regulation to the contrary, the department of environmental protection may, concurrent with review pursuant to sections 61 through 62H, inclusive, of chapter 30 of the General Laws and concurrently with any other state or municipal review and approval process, proceed with review of a Chapter 91 application that is filed with, and determined to be sufficient by, the department for the purpose of licensing the construction of a building  at the parcel of land in the North Point section of the city of Cambridge containing approximately 55,000 square feet of land, located southeasterly of Industrial Park Road (a.k.a. Education Street) and northeasterly of the extension of North Point Boulevard and which is a portion of the land more particularly described as Parcel No. 2-16, Parcel No. 2-17, and Parcel No. 2-18, shown on a plan of land entitled "The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plan of Road In The City of Cambridge Middlesex County Altered And Laid Out As A State Highway By The Department Of Highways", dated July 2, 1997 and signed by the Department of Highways, which plan is recorded with the Middlesex South Registry of Deeds as plan number 683 of 1997 in Book 27452, Page 537 together with related public open space improvements on land adjacent to said parcel; provided that prior to issuance of a final license, the applicant must provide to the department certification of municipal zoning compliance and a secretary’s certificate stating that the project adequately and properly complies with M.G.L. c. 30, §§ 61 through 62H.