The next meeting of the Community Preservation Committee will be held in the Town Hall beginning at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday evening, May 7, 2008. Plans showing the property being considered for purchase off of Cranberry Meadow Road and Eagle Drive may be seen in the Planning Board office http://www.virtualnorfolk.org/public_documents/norfolkma_planning/index
during Town Hall hours.
Committee Appointees:
Conservation:
David Lutes
Historical Commission:
Betsy Pyne, Co-Chair
Housing Authority:
Scott Dittrich
Planning Board:
Andrea Langhauser, Chair
Recreation:
Tom Terpstra
Precinct 1 Paul Terrio
Precinct 2 Kevin Hughes
Precinct 3 Cynthia Andrade
Precinct 4 Richard Connors
Articles being presented by the Community Preservation Committee at the Annual Town Meeting are as follows:
ARTICLE 16 Submitted by Community Preservation Committee
To see if the Town will vote, pursuant to Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 44B, Section 5, to appropriate the sum of $35,000.00 from the annual revenues in the Community Preservation Fund for the purpose of creating an Administrative and Operating Budget for the Community Preservation Committee.
ARTICLE 17 Submitted by Community Preservation Committee
To see if the Town will vote, pursuant to Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 44B, to reserve a sum of money equal to the state-mandated minimum amount of 10% from FY2009 Community Preservation Fund revenues for the creation, acquisition and preservation of Open Space for future appropriation.
ARTICLE 18 Submitted by Community Preservation Committee
To see if the Town will vote, pursuant to Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 44B, to reserve a sum of money equal to the state-mandated minimum amount of 10% from FY2009 Community Preservation Fund revenues for the creation, preservation and support of Affordable Housing for future appropriation.
ARTICLE 19 Submitted by Community Preservation Committee
To see if the Town will vote, pursuant to Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 44B, to reserve a sum of money equal to the state-mandated minimum amount of 10% from FY2009 Community Preservation Fund revenues for the acquisition, preservation, rehabilitation, and restoration of Historic Resources for future appropriation.
ARTICLE 20 Submitted by Community Preservation Committee
To see if the Town will vote to allocate from the Community Preservation Fund an amount not to exceed $100,000.00 to fund an affordable housing purchase price subsidy program for Norfolk residents and others with Norfolk ties including municipal employees.
ARTICLE 21 Submitted by Community Preservation Committee
To see if the Town will vote to allocate from the Community Preservation Fund an amount not to exceed $300,000 to be transferred to the Municipal Housing Trust Fund to be used to purchase and rehabilitate single family homes for affordable housing in the Town of Norfolk.
ARTICLE 22 Submitted by Community Preservation Committee
To see if the Town will vote to allocate from the Community Preservation Fund an amount not to exceed $1,105,000.00 to accept the Right of First Refusal under Chapter 61A to purchase approximately 32+/- acres for active and passive recreation and conservation purposes located off Cranberry Meadow Road, and Eagle Drive. The above described premise has been approved as a 22-lot subdivision known as “Cranberry Heights” being a portion of Lots 5 and 7 on Assessor’s Map 6, Section 1.
Natural Heritage Map.ppt
ARTICLE 23 Submitted by Community Preservation Committee
To see if the Town will approve the submission of a joint application to the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources by the Town of Norfolk, Town of Millis and the Trustees of Reservation to acquire the development rights through an Agricultural Preservation Restriction from the owner of 16+/- acres of land located in the Town of Norfolk on Baltimore Road and Holbrook Street, shown as Lot 2 on Assessors Map 10, Section 33 and to vote to allocate from the Community Preservation Fund an amount not to exceed $32,000.00 to be used as a match if the grant application is successful.
ARTICLE 24 Submitted by Community Preservation Committee
To see if the Town will vote to allocate from the Community Preservation Fund an amount not to exceed $5,000 to purchase a property described on the deed recorded with the Norfolk County Registry of Deeds Book 347 on Page 73 as containing approximately 15,000 square feet located on Campbell Street shown as Lot 20 on Assessors Map 22, Section 73 to be used for purposes authorized by the Community Preservation Act.
Meeting schedule:
The CPA Committee meets once a month.
Residents can check with the Town Clerk at 508-528-1400
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