SENATE DOCKET, NO. 1615        FILED ON: 1/20/2017

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 493

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PRESENTED BY:

Walter F. Timilty

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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 relative to the preservation of land designated areas of critical concern.

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PETITION OF:

 

Name:

District/Address:

 

Walter F. Timilty

Norfolk, Bristol and Plymouth

 

John H. Rogers

12th Norfolk

1/26/2017


SENATE DOCKET, NO. 1615        FILED ON: 1/20/2017

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 493

By Mr. Timilty, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 493) of Walter F. Timilty and John H. Rogers for legislation to preserve land in designated areas of critical concern.  Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture.

 

[SIMILAR MATTER FILED IN PREVIOUS SESSION
SEE HOUSE, NO. 767 OF 2015-2016.]

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

 

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In the One Hundred and Ninetieth General Court
(2017-2018)

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An Act relative to the preservation of land designated areas of critical concern.

 

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 or any rule or regulation to the contrary, any land so designated by the Commonwealth or any of its agencies and/or subdivisions thereof as an area of critical natural landscape, or area of conservation concern or area of core habitat in the Town of Milton, or any land abutting the property owned by the Commonwealth and part of the Blue Hill Reservation, more specifically referred to as Fowl Meadow shall not be negatively impacted, affected or altered by any development nor shall any development be permitted within 1000 feet of said Fowl Meadow.