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| 2 | 2 | | HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1231 FILED ON: 1/18/2023 |
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| 3 | 3 | | HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 771 |
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| 4 | 4 | | The Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
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| 5 | 5 | | _________________ |
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| 6 | 6 | | PRESENTED BY: |
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| 7 | 7 | | Edward F. Coppinger |
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| 8 | 8 | | _________________ |
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| 9 | 9 | | To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General |
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| 10 | 10 | | Court assembled: |
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| 11 | 11 | | The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill: |
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| 12 | 12 | | An Act relative to certain property to be used for conservation or recreational purposes. |
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| 13 | 13 | | _______________ |
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| 14 | 14 | | PETITION OF: |
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| 15 | 15 | | NAME:DISTRICT/ADDRESS :DATE ADDED:Edward F. Coppinger10th Suffolk1/18/2023 1 of 2 |
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| 16 | 16 | | HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1231 FILED ON: 1/18/2023 |
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| 17 | 17 | | HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 771 |
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| 18 | 18 | | By Representative Coppinger of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 771) of |
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| 19 | 19 | | Edward F. Coppinger relative to certain property to be used for conservation or recreational |
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| 20 | 20 | | purposes in the West Roxbury neighborhood of the city of Boston. Environment and Natural |
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| 21 | 21 | | Resources. |
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| 22 | 22 | | [SIMILAR MATTER FILED IN PREVIOUS SESSION |
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| 23 | 23 | | SEE HOUSE, NO. 4004 OF 2019-2020.] |
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| 24 | 24 | | The Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
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| 25 | 25 | | _______________ |
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| 26 | 26 | | In the One Hundred and Ninety-Third General Court |
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| 27 | 27 | | (2023-2024) |
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| 28 | 28 | | _______________ |
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| 29 | 29 | | An Act relative to certain property to be used for conservation or recreational purposes. |
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| 30 | 30 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority |
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| 31 | 31 | | of the same, as follows: |
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| 32 | 32 | | 1 SECTION XX. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the |
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| 33 | 33 | | 2department of conservation and recreation shall reclaim the land being more particularly |
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| 34 | 34 | | 3bounded and described as follows: Southerly by the northerly line of Belgrade Avenue, fifty- |
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| 35 | 35 | | 4seven (57) feet more or less; Westerly by land of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, known |
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| 36 | 36 | | 5as West Roxbury Parkway, one hundred twenty (120) feet more or less; Northerly by the |
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| 37 | 37 | | 6southerly side line of the location of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, fifty- |
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| 38 | 38 | | 7seven (57) feet more or less; and Easterly by land now or formerly of Clay Chevrolet, Inc., one |
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| 39 | 39 | | 8hundred twenty-three (123) feet more or less; containing six thousand nine hundred twenty-five |
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| 40 | 40 | | 9(6925) square feet more or less pursuant to Chapter 851 of the Acts of 1977 and the plan of land |
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| 41 | 41 | | 10file 9096-274. Upon title to said land reverting to the commonwealth the land shall forthwith be 2 of 2 |
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| 42 | 42 | | 11designated as open space to be used for conservation or recreational purposes subject to the |
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| 43 | 43 | | 12department’s continued use of the land for the purpose of sloping, embanking, filling and |
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| 44 | 44 | | 13maintaining its remaining land appurtenant to the West Roxbury Parkway. |
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