21.204 An Order to Release a Parking Easement on Glendale Road - CertifiedCity 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
21.204 An Order to Release a Parking Easement on Glendale Road
WHEREAS, 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”; and
WHEREAS, 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”; and
WHEREAS, 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.