PRINTER'S NO. 333
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
348
Session of
2019
INTRODUCED BY MUTH, FEBRUARY 27, 2019
REFERRED TO STATE GOVERNMENT, FEBRUARY 27, 2019
AN ACT
Authorizing the release of Project 70 restrictions on certain
lands owned by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, acting by
and through the Department of Conservation and Natural
Resources, in exchange for the imposition of Project 70
restrictions on other lands to be acquired by the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, acting by and through the
Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Restrictions on property owned by the Commonwealth,
acting by and through the Department of Conservation
and Natural Resources.
(a) Authorization.--Under the requirements of section 20(b)
of the act of June 22, 1964, (Sp. Sess., P.L.131, No.8), known
as the Project 70 Land Acquisition and Borrowing Act, the
General Assembly hereby authorizes the release of Project 70
restrictions on land owned by the Commonwealth, acting by and
through the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources,
which is more particularly described in subsection (b), in
exchange for the imposition of Project 70 restrictions on land,
which is more particularly described in subsection (c).
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(b) Land to be released from Project 70 restrictions.--The
land to be released from Project 70 restrictions is as follows:
ALL THOSE CERTAIN tracts or parcels of land situate in Upper
Uwchlan Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, being bounded
and described according to Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission Plan
No. RW 6018-C, WBS No. T-308.00T001-4-10, dated April 20, 2018,
Milepost T308.12 to T308.52, and as follows to wit:
FIRST:
BEGINNING at a point on the southerly legal right-of-way line
for limited access of the grantee and the westerly legal right-
of-way line of Styer Road (T-457), said point being located
100.00 feet right of and opposite Survey and Right-of-Way
Baseline Station 754+71±;
Thence through lands of the grantor and along the westerly
legal right-of-way line of Styer Road (T-457), South 39º45'56"
West, 60.26 feet to a point being located 160.00 feet, right of
and opposite Survey and Right-of-Way Baseline Station 754+77±;
Thence through land of the grantor and along the required
right-of-way line for limited access the following three (3)
courses and distances:
1. North 44°56'27" West, 599.92 feet to a point being
located 160.00 feet, right of and opposite Survey and Right-of-
Way Baseline Station 748+77.00;
2. North 46°49'41" West, 607.33 feet to a point being
located 180.00 feet, right of and opposite Survey and Right-of-
Way Baseline Station 742+70.00;
3. North 44°56'27" West, 28.61 feet to a point on the line
now or formerly of the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, said
point being located 180.00 feet right of and opposite Survey and
Right-of-Way Baseline Station 742+41±;
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Thence along land now or formerly of the Pennsylvania
Turnpike Commission the following two (2) courses and distances:
1. North 50°21'47" East, 14.32 feet to a point being located
166 feet, more or less, right of and opposite Survey and Right-
of-Way Baseline Station 742+43±;
2. North 28°26'03" East, 68.60 feet to a point on the
southerly legal right-of-way line for limited access of the
grantee, said point being located 100.00 feet, more or less,
right of and opposite Survey and Right-of-Way Baseline Station
742+23±;
Thence along the southerly legal right-of-way line for
limited access of the grantee, South 44°56'27" East, 1248.27
feet to the Point of BEGINNING.
CONTAINING 1.863 Acres
SECOND:
BEGINNING at a point on the southerly legal right-of-way line
for limited access of the grantee and the easterly legal right-
of-way line of Styer Road (T-457), said point being located
102.02 feet right of and opposite Survey and Right-of-Way
Baseline Station 755+05±;
Thence along the southerly legal right-of-way line for
limited access of the grantee the following four (4) courses and
distances:
1. South 33°37'26" East, 40.66 feet to a point being located
110.00 feet, right of and opposite Survey and Right-of-Way
Baseline Station 755+45±;
2. South 44°56'27" East, 799.40 feet to a point being
located 110.00 feet, right of and opposite Survey and Right-of-
Way Baseline Station 763+44±;
3. South 56°15'27" East, 50.96 feet to a point being located
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100.00 feet, right of and opposite Survey and Right-of-Way
Baseline Station 763+94±;
4. South 44°56'27" East, 52.89 feet to a point on the line
now or formerly of Robin W. and Judy A. Reid, said point being
located 100.00 feet right of and opposite Survey and Right-of-
Way Baseline Station 764+47±;
Thence along land now of formerly of Robin W. and Judy A.
Reid, South 14°05'18" West, 29.24 feet to a point being located
125 feet, more or less, right of and opposite Survey and Right-
of-Way Baseline Station 764+62±;
Thence through land of the grantor and along the required
right-of-way line for limited access the following six (6)
courses and distances:
1. North 75°54'42" West, 87.31 feet to a point being located
170.00 feet, right of and opposite Survey and Right-of-Way
Baseline Station 763+87.00;
2. North 44°56'27" West, 127.00 feet to a point being
located 170.00 feet, right of and opposite Survey and Right-of-
Way Baseline Station 762+60.00;
3. North 45°03'33" East, 10.00 feet to a point being located
160.00 feet, right of and opposite Survey and Right-of-Way
Baseline Station 762+60.00;
4. North 44°56'27" West, 295.00 feet to a point being
located 160.00 feet, right of and opposite Survey and Right-of-
Way Baseline Station 759+65.00;
5. South 45°03'33" West, 5.00 feet to a point being located
165.00 feet, right of and opposite Survey and Right-of-Way
Baseline Station 759+65.00;
6. North 44°56'27" West, 454.48 feet to a point on the
easterly legal right-of-way line of Styer Road (T-457), said
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point being located 165.00 feet, right of and opposite Survey
and Right-of-Way Baseline Station 755+11±;
Thence along the easterly legal right-of-way line of Styer
Road (T-457), North 39°45'56" East, 63.25 feet to the Point of
BEGINNING.
CONTAINING 1.176 Acres
THIRD:
BEGINNING at a point on the required right-of-way line for
limited access, said point being located 160.00 feet, right of
and opposite Survey and Right-of-Way Baseline Station 759+65.00;
Thence along the required right-of-way line for limited
access, South 44°56'27" East, 65.00 feet to a point being
located 160 feet, right of and opposite Survey and Right-of-Way
Baseline Station 760+30;
Thence through land of the grantor the following three (3)
courses and distances:
1. South 45°03'33" West, 50.00 feet to a point being located
210 feet, right of and opposite Survey and Right-of-Way Baseline
Station 760+30;
2. North 44°56'27" West, 65.00 feet to a point being located
210 feet, right of and opposite Survey and Right-of-Way Baseline
Station 759+65;
3. North 45°03'33" East, 50.00 feet to the Point of
BEGINNING.
CONTAINING 0.075 Acre
FOURTH:
BEGINNING at a point on the northerly legal right-of-way line
for limited access of the grantee and the easterly legal right-
of-way line of Styer Road (T-457), said point being located 100
feet, more or less, left of and opposite Survey and Right-of-Way
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Baseline Station 754+91±;
Thence along the easterly legal right-of-way line of Styer
Road (T-457), by a curve to the right, having a radius of 533.50
feet, an arc length of 43.86 feet, and a chord bearing of North
45°50'56" East, a chord distance of 43.84 feet to a point being
located 144 feet, more or less, left of and opposite Survey and
Right-of-Way Baseline Station 754+92±;
Thence along the required right-of-way line for limited
access and land now or formerly of John S. and Patricia M.
Cassel the following three (3) courses and distances:
1. South 60°22'50" East, 57.19 feet to a point being located
159 feet, more or less, left of and opposite Survey and Right-
of-Way Baseline Station 755+47±;
2. North 80°07'06" East, 109.81 feet to a point being
located 249 feet, more or less, left of and opposite Survey and
Right-of-Way Baseline Station 756+10±;
3. South 41°47'17" East, 201.29 feet to a point being
located 238 feet, more or less, left of and opposite Survey and
Right-of-Way Baseline Station 758+11±;
Thence along the required right-of-way line for limited
access, land now or formerly of John S. and Patricia M. Cassel,
land now or formerly of William M. and Kathleen A. Kalkbrenner,
and land now or formerly of Nelson L. and Kimberly D. Lucas-
Murphy, South 16°06'07" East, 265.12 feet to a point on the
northerly legal right-of-way line of the grantee, said point
being located 110 feet, more or less, left of and opposite
Survey and Right-of-Way Baseline Station 760+43±;
Thence along the northerly legal right-of-way line for
limited access of the grantee the following three (3) courses
and distances:
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1. North 44°56'27" West, 348.56 feet to a point being
located 110.00 feet, left of and opposite Survey and Right-of-
Way Baseline Station 756+94±;
2. North 56°15'27" West, 50.96 feet to a point being located
100.00 feet, left of and opposite Survey and Right-of-Way
Baseline Station 756+44±;
3. North 44°56'27" West, 153.50 feet to the Point of
BEGINNING.
CONTAINING 1.186 Acres
Being portions of the same properties that the Chester County
Water Resources Authority, by its deed dated November 7, 1969
and recorded November 7, 1969, in the Recorder of Deeds Office
in and for Chester County, Pennsylvania, in Deed Book C39, Page
290, and its deed dated February 20, 1978 and recorded February
20, 1978, in the Recorder of Deeds Office in and for Chester
County, Pennsylvania, in Deed Book M52, Page 300, granted and
conveyed unto the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
(c) Land subject to the imposition of Project 70
restrictions.--The land to be acquired by the Commonwealth,
acting by and through the Department of Conservation and Natural
Resources, on which Project 70 restrictions are to be imposed,
is as follows:
ALL THAT CERTAIN parcel of land situated in Wallace Township,
Chester County, Pennsylvania, being a PART OF UPI 31-4-145,
being a Turnpike Mitigation Area according to a new survey
thereof as shown on a Plan of Property Boundary Survey for
Natural Lands, prepared by Beideman Associates, Glenmoore,
Pennsylvania, dated February 22, 2018, and being more fully
described as follows:
BEGINNING AT AN INTERIOR POINT, a corner of a
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County/State/Highlands Funding Area, and on line of land of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (UPI 31-4-146); which INTERIOR
POINT OF BEGINNING is located as follows from the point of
intersection of the title line in Marshall Road (S.R. 4033) and
the title line in Chalfont Road (T-423), being at the
intersection of Little Conestoga Road (S.R. 4016) extending to
the north and east, Marshall Road extending to the west, and
Chalfont Road extending to the south; commencing thence along
the title line in Chalfont Road and along the Charles Andrews
Subdivision recorded in Plan Book 56 Page 13, the three (3)
following courses and distances: 1) South 14 degrees 34 minutes
31 seconds East 585.32 feet to a point; 2) crossing through the
Andrews Lane intersection, South 20 degrees 24 minutes 31
seconds 369.89 East feet to a point; and 3) South 30 degrees 30
minutes 31 seconds East 363.53 feet to a point; thence
continuing along the title line in Chalfont Road and along the
Chalfont-St. Giles Subdivision recorded as Plan Number 13270,
crossing through the Waterview Drive intersection, South 21
degrees 33 minutes 32 seconds East 411.98 feet to a point, a
corner of land of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (UPI 31-4-
146); thence leaving Chalfont Road and along said land of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, South 44 degrees 35 minutes 45
seconds West 65.60 feet to a corner of the herein described
Turnpike Mitigation Area, an interior point and the TRUE POINT
OF BEGINNING; THENCE FROM THE TRUE POINT OF BEGINNING, along
said land of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, crossing a
copperweld found at a distance of 19.24 feet, South 44 degrees
35 minutes 45 seconds West a total distance of 1165.92 feet to a
concrete monument found at a corner of land of Philadelphia
Suburban Water Company, now Aqua Pennsylvania, Inc. (UPI 31-4-
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143); thence along said land, North 38 degrees 22 minutes 44
seconds West 183.64 feet to a corner of the aforementioned
County/State/Highlands Funding Area; thence through UPI 31-4-145
of which this is a part, and along the County/State/Highlands
Funding Area, North 44 degrees 35 minutes 45 seconds East
1224.02 feet to a point; thence along the same, South 21 degrees
33 minutes 32 seconds East 199.27 feet to the point of
beginning.
CONTAINING 5.000 acres of land be the same more or less.
BEING PART OF UPI Number 31-4-145.
BEING A PART OF THE SAME PREMISES which Dekamodo Investment
Partnership, L.P., by deed dated December 19, 2017, and recorded
December 29, 2017, in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds in and
for the County of Chester, Pennsylvania, in Record Book 9675
Page 243, granted and conveyed to Natural Lands Trust, a
Pennsylvania non-profit corporation.
(d) Clause.--Project 70 restrictions shall be imposed on the
lands described in subsection (c) by the following deed clause:
This land to be used for park, recreation, and conservation
purposes in accordance with provisions of the act of June 22,
1964 (Sp. Sess., P.L. 131, No. 8), known as the Project 70 Land
Acquisition and Borrowing Act.
(e) Easements.--The conveyances described in this section
shall be subject to all lawful and enforceable easements,
servitudes and rights of others, including but not confined to
streets, roadways and rights of any telephone, telegraph, water,
electric, gas or pipeline companies, as well as under and
subject to any lawful and enforceable estates or tenancies
vested in third persons appearing of record, for any portion of
the land or improvements erected thereon.
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Section 2. Effective date.
This act shall take effect immediately.
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