CPC Applications 2023 Public Hearing Schedule

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December 6, 2023

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CPC Applications Public Hearing schedule is as follows:

November 15^th, 2023

Sudbury Housing Authority – Housing Authority Allocation

Reginal Housing Services Office (RHSO) Membership Fee

Community Garden Improvements – Lincoln Meadows and Broadacres Farm

Wayside Inn Bridge over Hop Brook Tributary

December 6^th, 2023

Hop Brook – Water Chestnut Remediation

Parkinson Field Driveway Access Improvements

Bruce Freeman Rail Trail Phase 3 – Design and Construction

Sudbury Housing Trust – Housing Trust Allocation

Presentations should generally be between 5 and 7 minutes, but no longer than 10 minutes. If you plan to use a PowerPoint file for your presentation, please email those to our office in advance of your scheduled public hearing date.

For those of you who still have outstanding questions which need responses provided to the Community Preservation Committee, please submit those answers to our office as soon as you are able. Providing these answers and any additional information in advance of your public hearing will put your application in the best position possible.

Please also be prepared to indicate what other funding sources you have explored for your project besides Community Preservation Act funding.

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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.

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