Get to Know the Warrant Articles: Coolidge Corner Theatre Expansion

The Coolidge Corner Theatre is looking to expand. Here are the three articles for Town Meeting addressing this expansion: 

ARTICLE 19

Submitted by: Michael Maynard, Coolidge Corner Theater Foundation Board of Trustees

To see if the Town will vote to extinguish, abandon or otherwise release a portion of an easement granted by the First Parish In Waltham, Universalist-Unitarian, Inc., to the Town of Brookline over a portion of land adjacent to 280-292 Harvard Street for the purpose of allowing the Coolidge Corner Movie Theatre to proceed with its proposed theatre expansion. That portion of the easement to be terminated is known as Easement A which is one of three easements granted to the Town by way of a Grant of Rights and Easements dated July 31, 1964 recorded with the Norfolk County Registry District of the Land Court as Document No. 256202 and further shown as Easement A on a “Plan of Land in Brookline, Mass.” dated July 10, 1964 prepared by Walter A. Bushway Registered Land Surveyor which is recorded with said Grant of Rights and Easements. Said easement is situated in Brookline, Norfolk County. In all other respects, the terms of the above- referenced Grant of Rights and Easements are hereby ratified and reaffirmed. The portion of said easement to be released contains approximately 2,530 square feet as shown on said plan, said Easement A being bounded and described as follows:

NORTHEASTERLY: SOUTHEASTERLY:

SOUTHWESTERLY:

NORTHWESTERLY: NORTHEASTERLY:

by other land of the Grantor, being the Southwesterly end of said PASSAGEWAY H, 10.05 feet;

by land formerly of S.S. Pierce Co. and now or late of Cohen and others, Trustees, being Parcel C on said plan, 32.12 feet;

in part by the same land and in part by land formerly of Cogswell and now or late of Bob Ware’s Food Shops, Inc., 127.10 feet;

by other land of the Grantor, being part of PASSAGEWAY A as shown on said plan, 19.46 feet;

by other land of the Grantor, 103.37 feet; and 27

NORTHERLY: by the same land, 19.70 feet.

ARTICLE 20:

To see if the Town will vote to accept a grant of easement from the Hamilton Charitable Corporation, a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts over a portion of land adjacent to adjacent to 280-292 Harvard Street and shown as Easement Area A-1 on a plan entitled "Site Plan of Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, Mass.," dated February 20, 2013, prepared by Neponset Valley Survey Associates., Inc., Quincy, Massachusetts in order to provide uninterrupted access from Harvard Street. to a Town managed off-street municipal parking lot located to the rear of the Coolidge Corner Theatre. Said easement is situated in Norfolk County and contains approximately 649 square feet as shown on said Plan. Said Plan and Grant of Easement to be recorded at the Norfolk Registry District of the Land Court upon acceptance by the Town.

ARTICLE 21:

Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the town of Brookline is hereby authorized to lease any part or portion of the air rights over its municipal off-street parking area located on the Northeasterly side of Centre Street and to the rear of the property located at 280-290 Harvard Street in Brookline, the property generally known and referred to and shown as Parcel 09 in Block 082 on Sheet 16 of the Town’s 2013 Assessors Atlas and more particularly depicted and described on a “Site Plan of Coolidge Corner Theater in Brookline, Massachusetts”, dated February 20, 2013 by Neponset Valley Survey Assoc., Inc., now or hereafter owned by it, for a period not to exceed 99 years, to Hamilton Charitable Corporation, a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and having a usual place of business of 39 Brighton Avenue, Allston, Massachusetts 02134 or its designee, upon such terms and conditions as the board of selectmen shall determine to be in the best interests of the town. The air rights to be leased over said property contains approximately 950 square feet as shown on said plan and is bounded and described as follows:

Beginning at a point on the southerly property line of the Coolidge Corner Theatre, said point being 37.10’ feet northwesterly from the southerly property corner of said theatre, thence running:

Southwesterly by land now or formerly of the Town of Brookline, 10.00’; thence running northwesterly by land now or formerly of the Town of Brookline 95.00’; thence running northeasterly by land now of the Town of Brookline; 10.00’; thence running along the southerly property line 95.00 to the point of beginning.

Said air rights easement contains an area of 950 square feet more or less.

Said air rights easement is as shown on a plan entitled “Easement Plan at Coolidge Corner Theatre” as prepared by Neponset Valley Survey associates, Inc. and dated February 20, 2013.