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Law Clears Path for Tidelands Development

BOSTON-Gov. Deval Patrick signs a bill that exempts landlocked, filled tidelands from the licensing process that covers waterfront properties.

By Marita Thomas | Updated on November 16, 2007

(Read more on the multifamily market.)

BOSTON-Gov. Deval Patrick has signed a bill that exempts non-waterfront properties on landlocked, filled tidelands from having to obtain Massachusetts General Law Chapter 91 licensing, a provision established generations ago to regulate activities and development along the state’s waterways. The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection administers Chapter 91 licensing.

In practice, the department had been exempting non-waterfront properties located on filled tidelands from Chapter 91 licensing since 1990. However, this February, the state’s Supreme Judicial Court ruled that the department lacked the authority to exempt properties located on filled tidelands that are at least 250 feet from the water and separated from it by a public way.

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