Newburyport Redevelopment Authority v. Commonwealth

This is a petition in the Land Court by which the Newburyport Redevelopment Authority (authority)

seeks to confirm its title to approximately 10.4 acres of land (locus) depicted on the accompanying sketch plan. An organization known as the Committee on Civic Rights of the Friends of the Newburyport Waterfront (committee) was permitted to appear, file an answer to the petition and participate in the proceedings. The primary thrust of that answer was an effort to have the court establish and declare that certain portions of the locus (shown as ways 1 through 11 on the sketch plan) “be held in…