ORDER-Glendale Road Parking Easement- FINALCity of Northampton
Massachusetts
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In City Council, March 4, 2021
Upon the recommendation of Mayor David J. Narkewicz and Office of Planning & Sustainability
21.An Order to Release a Parking Easement on Glendale RoadWHEREAS,On March 1, 2001, City Council authorized the City to take by eminent domain land off Glendale and Westhampton Roads
for a landfill buffer, open space and recreation, and housing and affordable housing, and authorized the Mayor to sell those housing building lots, including “Lot 6” and “Lot 7”; andWHEREAS,
As part of this transaction, the deed for the conservation area (recorded on June 23, 2003 at the Hampshire Registry of Deeds, Book 7271, Page 216)provides for a Parking Easement described
as follows: “the Conservation Commission shall be allowed to build, without limitations, a three-car parking lot…provided such parking lot does not block reasonable access to Lot 6”;
andWHEREAS, The City has a buyer for Lot 6 and Lot 7 (previous lots from this limited development were donated to Habitat for Humanity and sold to a private party), who has proposed
a driveway location consistent with future placement of a three-car parking lot within the Parking Easement; and WHEREAS, The Buyer has requested that the City allow reservation of
the southerly twenty (20) feet of Lot 6 for a driveway, widening out further to the south along the frontage on Glendale Road where Lot 6 widens, but a minimum of 20 feet in width at
all points, as the permanent location of the driveway (“the driveway area”); and WHEREAS, With the driveway area reserved for the driveway to the house to be constructed on Lot 6, the
City will maintain enough land for a three-car parking lot while ensuring that the City parking does not block said driveway area.Ordered, that
City Council hereby releases the retained (non-Article 97) interest of the City in the above-described driveway area for the placement of a driveway to Lot 6, which shall be the permanent
location of such driveway. The right to place a three-car parking lot, as provided in the deed recorded in the Hampshire Registry of Deeds, Book 7271, Page 216, shall hereby be limited
to areas outside the driveway area as released hereby.