Community Preservation Committee Seeks Proposals for FY23 Funding

Published October 6, 2021 | Community Preservation Committee | Automatically Archived on 10/20/2021

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Community Preservation Committee Now Accepting Applications

The Community Preservation Committee (CPC) is now accepting proposals for projects that may qualify for Community Preservation Act (CPA) funding to be presented at the May 2022 Annual Town Meeting. Proposals can be submitted under any of the following three areas: 1) acquisition, creation, and preservation of open space and acquisition, creation, preservation, rehabilitation, and restoration of land for recreational use; 2) acquisition, preservation, rehabilitation, and restoration of historic resources and; 3) acquisition, creation, preservation, and support of community housing.

Please click on the following link to download the application form: FY23-Project Form. Applications should be submitted to the CPC as soon as possible and no later than 12:30 PM on Wednesday, October 13, 2021.

Submissions can be mailed or hand delivered to the Planning and Community Development Department, Flynn Building, 278 Old Sudbury Road or dropped off inside the vestibule to the Town Clerk’s Office at the rear of Town Hall, 322 Concord Road. PDFs of each submission package are also requested as well.

Public hearings regarding the proposals will likely be held on November 17, 2021 and December 1, 2021 (subject to possible changes).

For more information about the CPA in Sudbury, please check out the CPC website at: https://sudbury.ma.us/cpc/. A brochure is also available describing the program along with a list of past projects funded by the CPA. Should you have any questions about your project proposal, please contact Adam Duchesneau, Director of Planning and Community Development, at 978-639-3387 or by e-mail at DuchesneauA@sudbury.ma.us.

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Under the provisions of the Community Preservation Act (CPA), Sudbury established a Community Preservation Committee on 2002.

This Committee consists of 9 members, including a member designated from each of the following commissions or boards: Select Board, Conservation Commission, Historical Commission, Planning Board, Park and Recreation Commission, Finance Committee, and Housing Authority; and 2 members at large appointed by the Select Board.

The Duties of said Community Preservation Committee shall be to:

(1) Study the needs, possibilities, and resources of the Town regarding community preservation. The Committee shall consult with existing municipal boards, including the Conservation Commission, the Sudbury Historical Commission, the Planning Board, the Park and Recreation Commission, the Sudbury Housing Authority, or persons acting in those capacities or performing like duties, in conducting such studies. As part of its study, the Committee shall hold one or more public informational hearings on the needs, possibilities, and resources of the Town regarding community preservation possibilities and resources, notice of which shall be posted publicly and published for each of two weeks preceding a hearing in a newspaper of general circulation in the town.

(2) Make recommendations to the legislative body for the acquisition, creation and preservation of open space; for the acquisition, preservation, rehabilitation and restoration of historic resources; for the acquisition, creation, preservation, rehabilitation and restoration of land for recreational use; for the acquisition, creation, preservation and support of community housing; and for rehabilitation or restoration of open space and community housing that is acquired or created as provided in this section; provided, however, that funds expended pursuant to this chapter shall not be used for maintenance. With respect to community housing, the community preservation committee shall recommend, wherever possible, the reuse of existing buildings or construction of new buildings on previously developed sites. With respect to recreational use, the acquisition of artificial turf for athletic fields shall be prohibited.

(3) Community Preservation Committee may include in its recommendation to the Town Meeting a recommendation to set aside for later spending funds for specific purposes that are consistent with community preservation but for which sufficient revenues are not then available in the Community Preservation Fund to accomplish that specific purpose or to set aside for later spending funds for general purposes that are consistent with community preservation.