BOSTON-Despite the criticisms of Governor Jane M. Swift’s recent legislation to create a public trust to oversee the Surface Artery land–the 30 acres that will be exposed in the heart of the city once the Big Dig puts the highway underground–city officials tell GlobeSt.com that they agree with the basic premise of the bill.

“The city has played a major role in developing and addressing this legislation,” Meredith Baumann, spokesperson for the Boston Redevelopment Authority, tells GlobeSt.com. “We believe that the legislation fundamentally reflects the Central Artery task force goals on a number of levels.”

Baumann specifies that those fundamentals include the governing body that the Massachusetts Millennium Greenway Trust creates is what the city wanted to see. She says that the city also agrees with the funding of the maintenance and upkeep of the Surface Artery through a special tax on the “betterment district”–businesses on the artery or within a quarter mile of it–as well as the creation of the garden under glass with the Horticultural Society. “We are watching closely,” adds Baumann, “We will wait and see what happens but we hope this process moves quickly.”

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