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 Community
Preservation Act News
Spring elections resulted in two successful
votes, bringing to 142 the number
of cities and towns which have adopted the
CPA. No Fall election votes are currently
scheduled.
More about the CPA
Two highlights of DOR's 2008-08B Bulletin,
"Annual Reporting Requirements",
are:
-- Both
the CP-1 and CP-3 forms must be submitted
by September 15th each year in order
for a community to receive a trust fund
distribution on October 15.
-- CP-3
reports must now be submitted using a new
online reporting system that collects
more detailed information about the uses
of community preservation fund monies throughout
the state.
Read
Bulletin 2008-08B
Smart Growth-Smart
Energy Conference
The 2008 conference, held on December 12th
at the Boston Convention and Exhibition
Center, focused on the latest housing, transportation,
economic development, energy, housing, public
health, and environmental innovations.
Click
here for final report and presentations
The 2nd
edition of the Toolkit includes a variety
of techniques to promote energy efficiency,
renewable energy, and redevelopement of
mills and brownfields.
More
about Clean Energy and Smart Growth-Smart
Energy
FY'08 Smart Growth/Smart
Energy Grant Round
EEA granted $111,5000 to seven communities
to fund feasibility studies for a "green"
building and a hydroelectric facility, design
plans for new and expanded parks, and efforts
to develop two regional trails.
Sorry, the Community Pages are still not
available!
However, community-specific resources,
including buildout maps/GIS projects and
EEA's archive of community photographs will
be provided on request.
Please contact Jane Pfister by email at:
Jane.Pfister@state.ma.us
or by phone at: (617) 626-1194.
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The Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs
(EEA) through its Smart Growth \ Smart Energy initiatives
and policies seeks to achieve land use planning and
development that is consistent with the smart conservation,
clean energy, and economic growth goals and sustainable
development principles of the Patrick Administration.
For more than ten years EEA's land use planning policies
and programs have helped to keep Massachusetts in the
forefront of innovative state approaches to smart growth
with technical assistance programs, tools, and direct
outreach to local officials and decision makers across
the Commonwealth.
In promoting smart growth, the program's approach
is to focus on concentrating growth in existing urban
locations with infrastructure, minimizing land consumption,
encouraging permanent protection of critical natural
resources, promoting environmental equity, and locating
and designing new developments in ways that provide
needed homes and businesses while maintaining environmental
integrity.
Originating in 1996 with the issuance of Executive
Order 385 "Planning for Growth", EEA's smart growth
efforts were greatly expanded between 1998 and 2002
into the Community Preservation Initiative which focused
on building a constituency for smart growth at the grassroots
level and providing municipal decision makers the information
and resources necessary to enhance the quality of life
in Massachusetts on a community-by-community and watershed-by-watershed
basis.
Over the past seven years the program worked closely
with other state agencies on policies, programs, and
incentives intended to care for the natural and built
environment by promoting sustainable development through
the integration of energy, environmental, housing, and
transportation policies, programs, and regulations.
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