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POR 2023-72

Asked the City Manager to work with relevant City departments to bring together a working group to conduct outreach through neighborhood groups including the Fresh Pond Residents Alliance, and any other nearby neighborhood groups and city departments, in order to discuss and review options for use of the BB&N Field

How it started
Apr 24, 2023 · Proposed by Councillor Nolan, Vice Mayor Mallon, Mayor Siddiqui, and Councillor Carlone: a formal request from the Council to the administration.
What happened
Apr 24, 2023 · ✅ Order adopted. The Council's request went to the City Manager. (unanimous)

Voted yes (9), unanimous

  • Burhan Azeem
  • Dennis Carlone
  • Alanna Mallon
  • Marc McGovern
  • Patty Nolan
  • E. Denise Simmons
  • Paul F. Toner
  • Quinton Zondervan
  • Sumbul Siddiqui
Roll call of Apr 24, 2023 · from the council’s minutes · photos: City of Cambridge
What’s next
No response on the docket: nothing has been filed back under this request's number (AR 2023 #28 open, 1,214 days). Answers sometimes arrive as other items; this ledger tracks only this one.
Order adopted, unanimousApr 24, 2023
Referred for reportAR 2023-28May 1, 2023
Awaiting answer⏳ pending1,214 days and counting

The item's path through the council, every recorded step. How the request pipeline works

The document Agenda item attachment · 2 pages

Three parcels of land in Cambridge shown as Lots A, B and C on a plan by E. F. Bowker, C.E., dated November 6, 1905, recorded with Middlesex South District Deeds, Plan Book 157, Plan 45, and together bounded and described as follows:

Westerly by Larch Road by two lines, one hundred eighty (180) feet and one hundred thirty and 46/100 (130.46) feet, respectively;

Northwesterly by Wyeth Terrace by two lines, two hundred forty-seven and 41/100 (247.41) feet and one hundred seventy-three and 43/100 (173.43) feet, respectively;

Northeasterly by land now or formerly of the Curling Club, Corcoran, Gibson, Gardner, Stone, Xavier, and of Demmon heirs, six hundred thirty and 25/100 (630.25) feet;

Southerly by land now or formerly of Rice and Niles and of F. P. Fish by two lines, one hundred fifty-nine and 69/100 (159.69) feet and two hundred ninety-three and 29/100 (293.29) feet, respectively.

Excepting therefrom the above-described premises is that portion taken in fee by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts acting by and through its Department of Public Works for the layout and construction of a traffic artery (Layout No. 2557) (Fresh Pond Parkway), dated May 1, 1929 and recorded at Book 5354, Page 342, as confirmed by deed from The Buckingham School to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, acting by and through its Department of Public Works, dated July 2, 1929 and recorded at Book 5377, Page 2, containing an 11,104 square foot parcel of land as shown on Plan 533 of 1929.

Note that Wyeth Terrace is now part of Fresh Pond Parkway.

For title to said parcel of land see Middlesex South Registry of Deeds Book 9840, Page 141.

The pro tanto damages awarded with respect to said Parcel of Land are seven million and seven hundred and two thousand ($7,702,000) Dollars and the supposed owner is Buckingham Browne & Nichols School.

NOW THEREFORE BE IT

ORDERED: The taking of fee simple title in the Parcel of Land, excepting any easement of record, along with all buildings and trees thereon herein described is hereby authorized in accordance with General Laws, Chapter 40, Section 14, Chapter 43, Section 30 and Chapter 79, all as amended for open space or any other municipal purposes and for all purposes and uses accessory thereto.

In City Council December 21, 2020. Adopted by a yea and nay vote:-

Yeas 8; Nays 1; Absent 0. Attest:- Anthony I. Wilson, City Clerk A true copy; ATTEST:-

Anthony I. Wilson

City Clerk

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Apr 24, 2023

Public Comment (1)

1 written comment received (2023-05-01). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.