Amendment #453 to H4506

MBTA Property Sale Enhancements

Mr. Madaro of Boston moves to amend the bill by adding in the following section:

“SECTION XXXX. Section 20 of chapter 6C of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2018 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after the second paragraph the following paragraph:-

Any agreement related to any sale or lease of property may require that a developer construct, design, build, finance, operate, or maintain, or any combination thereof, transportation facilities in the state highway system, including land and air rights or any related facility or component thereof controlled by the department, so long as the department shall state in its bid documentation that such transportation facilities or related facility will be accepted or required as a part of any such development agreement. No further procurement or advertising requirements shall be required, except as required in this section.

Section 46 of said chapter 6C, as appearing in the 2018 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after the first paragraph the following paragraph:-

Any agreement related to any lease of property may require that a developer construct, design, build, finance, operate, or maintain, or any combination thereof, transportation facilities in the state highway system including land and air rights or any related facility or component thereof controlled by the department, so long as the department shall state in its bid documentation that such transportation facilities or related facility will be accepted or required as a part of any such development agreement. No further procurement or advertising requirements shall be required, except as required in section 20.

Clause (ii) of subsection (c) of section 5 of said chapter 161A, as so appearing, is hereby amended by adding the following sentence:- Any agreement related to any concession or lease of property may require that the developer construct, design, build, finance, operate, and maintain, or any combination thereof, mass transportation facilities or any related facility or component thereof for the authority, so long as the authority shall state in its bid documentation that such mass transportation facilities or related facility or component thereof will be accepted or required as a part of any such agreement. No further procurement or advertising requirements shall be required, except as required by subsection (b) and this subsection.”.