HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 4700        FILED ON: 4/13/2016

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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PRESENTED BY:

Nick Collins and Linda Dorcena Forry

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To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
Court assembled:

The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill:

An Act conveying a certain parcel of land on East First Street in the South Boston section of the City of Boston.

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PETITION OF:

HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 4700        FILED ON: 4/13/2016

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 4293

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the One Hundred and Eighty-Ninth General Court
(2015-2016)

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An Act conveying a certain parcel of land on East First Street in the South Boston section of the City of Boston.

Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would tend to defeat its purpose, which is to to facilitate the establishment of a visual and noise buffer along East First Street in South Boston to help shield area residents from the impacts associated with existing and future industrial uses along Reserve Channel, therefore it is hereby declared to be an emergency law, necessary for the immediate preservation of the public safety and health.
 

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. Legislative findings.

Whereas, section 6(j) of chapter 153 of the acts of 2010 declared that a certain buffer area be established by the Massachusetts Port Authority (“Massport”) along a portion of the north side of East First Street in South Boston to be both a visual and noise barrier between the community and the trucks traveling on the Thomas J.  Butler Freight Corridor (the “East First Street Buffer”) would be subject to Article XCVII of the constitution of the Commonwealth.

Whereas, the physical features and design of the East First Street Buffer were to be established through a community planning process conducted in accordance with the requirements of section 6(g) of chapter 153 of the acts of 2010.

Whereas, the East First Street Buffer community planning process was carried out in accordance with the requirements of section 6(g) of chapter 153 of the acts of 2010 and the final community-agreed upon design included incorporation of angled parking in an expanded portion of the City of Boston’s East First Street public right of way and the relocation of the City’s existing sidewalk into the East First Street Buffer owned by Massport (the “East First Street Improvements”).

Whereas, as the East First Street Improvements are to be constructed within and adjacent to the existing East First Street public right of way owned by the City of Boston, it is appropriate that the City own the same. 

SECTION 2.

Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the portion of the East First Street Buffer shown as “East First Street Improvements Parcel” on the plan entitled “Plan of East First Street Buffer Established by Chapter 153 of the Massachusetts Acts of 2010,” drawn by John A Hammer, II, PLS, dated 9/21/ 2015, on file with Massachusetts Port Authority (the “Plan”) and  more particularly described in section 3 below, is conveyed in fee simple by operation of this act from Massport to the City of Boston.  The conveyance shall become effective upon the recording by Massport of the instrument of conveyance with the Suffolk County Registry of Deeds.  The conveyance shall be subject to the requirement as agreed upon between the City of Boston and the Massachusetts Port Authority that parking provided within the East First Street Improvements Parcel may be used by visitors to the East First Street Buffer during the hours the East First Street Buffer is open to the public. 

SECTION 3. 

The legal description of the East First Street Improvements Parcel, as shown on the Plan, is as follows:

Beginning at a point on the northerly line of East First Street bearing  N 88° 23' 28" E  a distance of 836.70 feet from  Summer Street, thence turning and running:

N 01° 36’ 32” Wa distance of 8.31 feet, thence turning and running;

N 88° 23’ 28” Ea distance of 339.72 feet, thence turning and running;

N 01° 31’ 44” Wa distance of 2.60 feet, thence turning and running;

N 88° 23’ 28” Ea distance of 37.30 feet, thence turning and running;

Southeasterly along a non-tangent curve to the right of radius 19.62 feet, a distance of 9.14 feet, having a chord bearing of S 23° 18’ 28” E, and a chord distance of 9.06 feet,  thence turning and running;

N 88° 23’ 28” Ea distance of 8.44 feet, thence turning and running;

N 58° 14’ 29” Ea distance of 11.96 feet, thence turning and running;

N 88° 23’ 28” Ea distance of 119.45 feet, thence turning and running;

N 43° 14’ 29” Ea distance of 18.34 feet, thence turning and running;

N 88° 23’ 28” Ea distance of 1308.50 feet, thence turning and running;

S 31° 36’ 26” Ea distance of 22.29 feet, thence turning and running;

N 88° 23’ 28” Ea distance of 57.38 feet, thence turning and running;

S 01° 36’ 32” Ea distance of 2.20 feet, thence turning and running;

S 88° 23’ 28” Wa distance of 1908.55 feet by the northerly line of East First Street to the point of the beginning.

Said parcel containing an area of 32,933 square feet, more or less according to the Plan.

SECTION 4.

The Massachusetts Port Authority cruise port, marketed as Cruiseport Boston, located in the port of Boston in the South Boston section of the city of Boston shall be designated and known as the Raymond L. Flynn Cruiseport and marketed as "Flynn Cruiseport Boston".  The Massachusetts Port Authority shall erect and maintain a suitable marker bearing the designation in compliance with the standards of the department.