Boston Parks and Recreation Commission Meeting

Introductions

Acquisitions

1) Vote to execute an Order of Taking, dated February 27, 2023, to acquire the fee simple interest, inclusive of trees and structures standing upon and affixed thereto, of two parcels containing 51,545 square feet, more or less, of land, now or formerly owned by Lakeside Development Partners, LLC, which land is located at Unnumbered (aka “0”) and 4 Lakeside Avenue in the Hyde Park District of the City of Boston (numbered in the records of the Assessing Department as Parcels 1812998000 and 1812999000 respectively), and shown as "Parcel - A” on a plan dated May 18, 2022 and titled “Plan of Land Taken for Park and Passive Recreation Purposes by the Parks and Recreation Commission, City of Boston, 0 and 4 Lakeside Avenue, Hyde Park District, Boston MA” prepared by Joyce Consulting Group, PC, Braintree, Massachusetts, said land to be used for the community preservation purposes of providing a park, passive recreation, natural, historical, cultural, and archaeological resource conservation, and public access to the Great Pond known as Sprague Pond;

And to further vote that the supposed owner be awarded a sum of money set against their name as compensation for damages in their estate at 0 and 4 Lakeside Avenue in the Hyde Park District of the City of Boston by the taking of their interest in the land for the community preservation purposes of providing a park, passive recreation, natural, historical, cultural, and archaeological resource conservation, and public access to the Great Pond known as Sprague Pond.

And to further vote that said park shall be known as the Sprague Pond Shoreline Reserve.

2) A vote that the Parks and Recreation Commission, on behalf of the City of Boston, for the community preservation purposes of providing a park, passive recreation, natural, historical, cultural, and archaeological resource conservation, and public access to the Great Pond known as Sprague Pond, having taken by eminent domain the following described parcel of land with funding from the Community Preservation Fund appropriated for the acquisition of open space and parkland by the City Council, hereby grants a perpetual conservation restriction in said parcel of land to the Southwest Boston Community Development Corporation in accordance with Section 3 of Chapter 185 of the Acts of 1875, G.L. Chapter 44B, Section 12 (a),  and G.L Chapter 184, Sections 31 through 33, having found this grant to be in the public interest, and authorizes the Commissioner of the Parks and Recreation Department to enter into all agreements and documents and to execute any and all instruments as may be necessary to effect said perpetual conservation restriction.

LOCUS: That parcel of land, known as the Sprague Pond Shoreline Reserve, shown as "Parcel – A" on a survey dated May 18, 2022 titled "Plan of Land Taken for Park and Passive Recreation Purposes by the Parks and Recreation Commission, City of Boston, 0-4 Lakeside Avenue, Hyde Park District, Boston, MA", and prepared by Joyce Consulting Group, PC, Braintree, Massachusetts.

Commissioner: Ryan Woods

Associate Commissioners: Elisa Birdseye, William Epperson,

Leonard Lee, David Queeley, Mariama White-Hammond

Executive Secretary: Carrie Marsh Dixon / Chief Landscape Architect: Liza Meyer

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