CITY OF NASHUA
OFFICE OF CORPORATION COUNSEL
To: Board of Aldermen
From: Celia K. Leonard, Esq. LF f HA
Office of Corporation Counsel
Date: March 30, 2017
CC: Mayor Donchess, Director Fauteux, Director Marchant, Director Cummings, City
Engineer Dookran
RE: Petition for Street Acceptance: Northwest Boulevard Extension
Northwest Boulevard is presently a public way that leads southwesterly from Rt 101-A to
a point prior to where it intersects with the railroad tracks. Between 1998 and 2001, the City
received development proposals for nearly 300 acres of land southwesterly of the train tracks
known as “Westwood Park.” The City reviewed the proposals and ultimately approved a total of
6 lots to be served by an extension of Northwest Boulevard southwesterly of the tracks, the so
called Northwestern Boulevard Extension.
Within Westwood Park, the City currently owns one lot of approximately 253 acres in fee
and has a conservation easement on another 41.5 acre lot. As an owner, the City is subject to the
Park Covenants for Westwood Park dated June i, 1998. Further, by assignment dated October
31, 2001, the developer assigned all its rights and obligations under the Park Covenants to the
City and the City accepted the assignment.
It is estimated that Northwestern Boulevard Extension was constructed in the 1999-2000
timeframe. As part of the construction of Northwestern Boulevard Extension, the developers
entered into a private crossing agreement with the Boston and Maine Corporation and
Springfield Terminal Railway Company dated April 1, 1998 and recorded in the Hillsborough
County Registry of Deeds at Book 5949, page 1113, to cross the tracks.
