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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 1112
January Session, 2021
LCO No. 7960
Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION
AND ELECTIONS
Introduced by:
(GAE)
AN ACT AMENDING THE CONVEYANCE OF PARCEL S OF STATE
LAND TO THE CITY OF NEW HAVEN.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 6 of public act 17-238 is amended to read as follows 1
(Effective from passage): 2
(a) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, the 3
Commissioner of Transportation shall convey to the city of New Haven 4
[eleven] six parcels of land located in the city of New Haven, at a cost 5
equal to the administrative costs of making such conveyance. Said 6
parcels of land are identified as [follows: (1) The first parcel has an area 7
of approximately .45 acre and is identified as 41 Dwight Street at Lot 500 8
in Block 176 on city of New Haven Assessor's Map 298; (2) the second 9
parcel has an area of approximately .088 acre and is identified as 999 Ella 10
T Grasso Boulevard at Lot 3300 in Block 151 on city of New Haven 11
Assessor's Map 342; (3) the third parcel has an area of approximately .45 12
acre and is identified as 283 Legion Avenue at Lot 2100 in Block 173 on 13
city of New Haven Assessor's Map 314; (4) the fourth parcel has an area 14 Raised Bill No. 1112
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of approximately .13 acre and is identified as 786 Legion Avenue at Lot 15
100 in Block 151 on city of New Haven Assessor's Map 342; (5) the fifth 16
parcel has an area of approximately 4.36 acres and is identified as 38 17
Miller Street at Lot 1000 in Block 165 on city of New Haven Assessor's 18
Map 340; (6) the sixth parcel has an area of approximately .025 acre and 19
is identified as 45 Miller Street at Lot 2700 in Block 166 on city of New 20
Haven Assessor's Map 340; (7) the seventh parcel has an area of 21
approximately .65 acre and is identified as 203 Orchard Street at Lot 100 22
in Block 1290 on city of New Haven Assessor's Map 315; (8) the eighth 23
parcel has an area of approximately .34 acre and is identified as 41 24
Sherman Avenue at Lot 100 in Block 1279 on city of New Haven 25
Assessor's Map 314; (9) the ninth parcel has an area of approximately .15 26
acre and is identified as 7 Waverly Street at Lot 200 in Block 1292 on city 27
of New Haven Assessor's Map 315; (10) the tenth parcel has an area of 28
approximately .29 acre and is identified as Lot 1000 in Block 1279 on city 29
of New Haven Assessor's Map 314, located on Fayette Street; and (11) 30
the eleventh parcel has an area of approximately 1 acre and is identified 31
as Lot 1500 in Block 173 on city of New Haven Assessor's Map 314, 32
located on Orchard Street] parcels numbered 1 to 6, inclusive, on sheets 33
1 to 4, inclusive, of a map entitled "Compilation Plan, Town of New 34
Haven, Map Showing Land Released to City of New Haven, by The 35
State of Connecticut, Department of Transportation, Reverend Dr. 36
Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Legion Avenue, February 2019, 37
scale 1"=40', Mark D. Rolfe, P.E., Chief Engineer- Bureau of Engineering 38
and Construction, Town No. 92, Project No. 156-79, Serial No. 1A". The 39
conveyance shall be subject to the approval of the State Properties 40
Review Board. 41
(b) The city of New Haven shall use said parcels of land for open 42
space purposes. If the city of New Haven: 43
(1) Does not use said parcels for said purposes; 44
(2) Does not retain ownership of all of said parcels; or 45
(3) Leases all or any portion of said parcels, 46 Raised Bill No. 1112
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the parcels shall revert to the state of Connecticut. 47
(c) The State Properties Review Board shall complete its review of the 48
conveyance of said parcels of land not later than thirty days after it 49
receives a proposed agreement from the Department of Transportation. 50
The land shall remain under the care and control of said department 51
until a conveyance is made in accordance with the provisions of this 52
section. The State Treasurer shall execute and deliver any deed or 53
instrument necessary for a conveyance under this section, which deed 54
or instrument shall include provisions to carry out the purposes of 55
subsection (b) of this section. The Commissioner of Transportation shall 56
have the sole responsibility for all other incidents of such conveyance. 57
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 from passage PA 17-238, Sec. 6
Statement of Purpose:
To amend the property description of parcels of state land conveyed to
the city of New Haven for open space.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except
that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not
underlined.]