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Community Preservation Act: 80% for Housing Community Preservation Committee: January 27, 2005 10 a.m. public hearing on use of CPA funds. The Community Preservation Committee will hold a public hearing on Thursday, January 27, 2005 at 10 a.m. on proposed uses of Community Preservation Act funds for open space/wellhead protection, historic resources, and community housing (including the Cape End Manor Care Campus project).
Affordable Housing Task Force hosts meetings on the CPA. The Board of Selectmen has voted to authorize the Town Manager to convene the Affordable Housing Task Force and the boards to be represented on the Community Preservation Committee to work towards implementing the Community Preservation Act. As indicated in the timeline below, the Community Preservation Committee by-law may not take effect until late July, with the seating of the CPC members not until a month later. In an effort to keep things moving along, two meetings of the Affordable Housing Task Force were held: Thursday, July
8, 2004 - 5 to 7 p.m. - Town Hall Community Preservation Coalition Executive Director Dorrie Pizzella will be returning for her third visit to Provincetown on Thursday, July 8th, to discuss with us the nuts and bolts of implementing the Community Preservation Act. More information about the CPA and the Coalition is available at www.communitypreservation.org, including samples of project selection criteria used by CPCs in other towns. A 53-page Informational Guideline Release on the CPA is available from the Department of Revenue. Land Bank-CPA Option. The Massachusetts House and Senate have now sent onto the Governor the FY 2005 state budget bill which-- in Outside Section 298-- contains the provision added by Senator Rob O'Leary and others that would allow Cape Cod towns to vote to switch from the Land Bank to the Community Preservation Act. Assuming the Governor does not veto that section, the Coalition is planning a public education/ outreach effort this summer and early fall on what it would mean vs. the status quo for all the Cape towns. The text is available at http://www.mass.gov/legis/05budget/outside_sections.pdf and then scroll down to Section 298. Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 3 to
5 p.m. - Town Hall In proposing adoption of the Community Preservation Act, one of the Affordable Housing Task Force's goals was to look at the establishment of a locally-based non-profit as a principal potential recipient of CPA funds. The Nantucket Housing Office (NHO) is a "private, not-for-profit corporation whose mission is to create community housing opportunities for Nantucket" which received start up funds from Nantucket's CPA. Mr. Nussbaum and NHO Associate Director Leedara Zola can review with us their experiences in producing housing with CPA funds, and other resources, in a seasonal tourism-based, geographically remote community with a strong second home market. The Nantucket Housing Office has also dealt with the issue of seeking a waiver from Chapter 40B under DHCD's planned production program-- a topic our Board of Selectmen has invited discussion on here. The procedure involves obtaining DHCD approval for an Affordable Housing Plan-- which Nantucket has done- and then obtaining DHCD certification for compliance with the plan-- which has not yet occurred-- by production of affordable housing units equal to 3/4 of 1% of the Town's year-round housing stock. [For Nantucket, the target is 30 units; for Provincetown it would be 15.] Once a community is in compliance with its plan, for a twelve-month period the local Zoning Board of Appeals has the ability to deny or approve with modifications any request for a 40B Comprehensive Permit. The NHO representatives can share with us their experience with this issue.
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