Section 5 Transit Oriented Development 1

Section 20 of chapter 6C of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2018 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after the second paragraph the following paragraph:-

Any agreement related to any sale or lease of property may require that a developer construct, design, build, finance, operate, or maintain, or any combination thereof, transportation facilities in the state highway system, including land and air rights or any related facility or component thereof controlled by the department, so long as the department shall state in its bid documentation that such transportation facilities or related facility will be accepted or required as a part of any such development agreement. No further procurement or advertising requirements shall be required, except as required in this section.

This section, along with one other, provides the MBTA and MassDOT with the authority to enter into competitively procured real estate deals or other projects with private parties that include mitigation and the private construction of facilities that will be owned by the agency.