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 Community
Preservation Act News
Spring elections resulted in one successful
votes, bringing the statewide total
to 148 communities which have adopted
the CPA.
In October 2010, DOR distributed $25.8
million to 142 communities to match the
local surcharge revenue. The Commissioner
of Revenue also implemented the discretionary
third round match, in addition to the first
and second round matches. Click here
for DOR's 2010 municipality by municipality
Distribution Spreadsheet.
Click here
for a CPA Calculator (provided by the Community
Preservation Coalition).
More about
the CPA
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
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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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