Protecting our town and quality of life
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 14th, 2009
Each residential property is exempted from the CPA surcharge for the first $100K of value. Each resident is also entitled to exemptions from the CPA surcharge if they qualify for low income housing or low and moderate senior housing exemptions. The Community Preservation Coalition has information on implementing CPA which includes information on how the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 14th, 2009
I received this email and put it out there for discussion. Historic preservation easements sound like an interesting option. Dear Mr. Belanger, I stumbled across the Middleboro CPA webpage by accident, and am interested in learning about what the CPA is doing. I grew up in Middleboro (I am a member of the MHS class [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 12th, 2009
The Massachusetts Historical Commission is accepting applications for grants. This would be the perfect thing to use CPA for. The Massachusetts Preservation Projects fund gives you a 50% match for historical preservation. If we were in CPA, we could spend some CPA funds on these sorts of projects. The net result would be that we [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 8th, 2009
Very low turnout at the 1/6/2009 CPA meeting. This meeting was intended to be half informational and half organizational. Given the low turnout, I can’t justify holding any more public forums until the petition drive is complete. One person showed up to talk against CPA – which is pretty much covered in this article. Volunteers [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 8th, 2009
From the Middleboro Gazette Now that the holidays are over, Community Preservation Act supporters are planning to gear up for an effort to collect the signatures of about 900 local residents, enough to find out whether voters at the April town election will be willing to pay more in local property taxes for open space [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 8th, 2009
The following is a letter from Jessie Powell regarding a letter to the editor that was recently published in the Middleboro Gazette Mr. Cook’s recent letter seems to have misunderstood the issue of CPA. To include a laundry list of budgetary grievances with the Community Preservation Act is disingenuous and should be treated separately. It’s [...]