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As we receive them, the Coalition will post various implementation
related documents here, such as CPA plans and project evaluation
criteria. Please note that while these are good examples of each type of document
and you should feel free to copy from them as is helpful, there
is no mandatory form that most of these documents should take - it is up
to each individual Community Preservation Committee to devise tools that
best address the needs of its community.
Please submit your community's
materials as you develop them and we will share with them others on this
page. Also contact us
with any corrections or comments.
Sample CPA Deed Restrictions
(These restrictions are provided as examples. They should not be used without consulting your Town Counsel or City Solicitor)
Bedford - affordable housing restriction
Hingham - historic preservation restriction
Newton - affordable housing restriction
Georgetown - conservation restriction
Nantucket - preservation easement #1
Nantucket - preservation easement #2
Nantucket - preservation easement #3
Community Preservation Plans
Acton
Bedford
Belchertown
Kingston
Marshfield
Newton
Sudbury
Wellesley
Project Evaluation Criteria
Ashland
Bedford
Chilmark
Georgetown
Grafton
Marshfield
Norwell
Plymouth
Rockport
Scituate
Sudbury
Wayland
Applications for CPA Funding
Conway
Kingston
Lincoln
Norwell
Scituate
CPA Low and Moderate Income Guidelines
For communities that have chosen to accept the optional exemption to their CPA property tax surcharge for low-income homeowners and low- and moderate-income senior homeowners, the worksheet provided here lists the federal HUD income guidelines - broken down on a community-by-community basis - that the Community Preservation Act uses to determine eligibility for this exemption.
These same federal HUD income guidelines are also used to determine who is eligible to live in the affordable housing units developed by communities with their CPA funds. Housing developed with CPA funds may be offered to those persons and families whose annual income is less than 100 percent of the areawide median income, as determined by HUD. To see what those figures would be in your community, click here.
Please note, though, that communities may choose to limit certain housing units created with CPA funds to those persons and families earning less than 80 percent of the areawide median income annually, as determined by HUD (this allows communities to include these units on their Subsidized Housing Inventory (SHI) with the state). To see what those figures would be in your community, click here.
Sample CPA Insert for Tax Bills
Many communities put a flyer in their tax bills to explain how taxpayers can apply for exemptions from the CPA surcharge. These exemptions, if adopted in your community, exempt low income and low and moderate income seniors, but only if the taxpayer completes an application each year. Below are links to some sample flyers that explain the process by which people can apply for the exemption. Feel free to use this format to create a tax insert for your community, but you will need to replace the income levels for the exemption with the proper levels for your community (found above under "CPA Low and Moderate Income Guidelines"). It's a good idea to create this flyer, particularly if the community is new to CPA and sending out tax bills that contain the CPA surcharge for the first time.
To see the sample CPA tax bill insert for Boxford, click here.
To see the sample CPA tax bill insert for Ashland, click here.
To see the sample CPA tax bill insert for Dunstable, click here.
To see the sample CPA tax bill insert for Peabody, click here.
United States Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties
These standards are referred to in the definition of "rehabilitation" in the CPA statute (Chapter 44B, Section 2). According to this definition, all work on historic resources must comply with the standards. To view or download a copy of these standards, click here.
CPA 'Allowable Uses' Chart
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