CPA Projects Database

For the partial replacement of the roof on the 17th century Sparrow House.

Add 0.7 acres from an abutting private property to the Cohen Conservation Area in Newton Centre and expand an existing conservation restriction to include the entire property. For project details & documents, see link from program website, www.newtonma.gov/cpa, under "Proposals & Projects."

Purchase of 2.39 acres for open space and historic preservation. Seller: Dickson Family

To write down the purchase price of 3 units in 2 new duplexes to make them permanently affordable to City employees with household incomes under 100 percent of the area median.

In an existing 2-family home, create 2 units of rental housing, with a total of 4 bedrooms, that will be permanently affordable to households at up to 80 percent of the area median income. For project details & documents, see link from program website, www.newtonma.gov/cpa, under "Proposals & Projects."

Establish a conservation rstriction for Bartlett's Farm and eliminate development rights on 104 acres to keep continguous open space

Funding for down payment assistance and gap financing for affordable home buyers that are year-round residents.

For a study of how to restore an historic house in Nantucket

For the second year of funding for the 2 habitat for humanity houses

For an affordable housing infrastructure fund that will go towards the construction of 12 units of affordable housing to attract teachers to the island.

For the second phase of funding for the historic Nantucket Athenaeum.

Continuation of the United Methodist Church Restoration

For Winter Park open space- land given to Parks and Recreation in perpetuity. Seller: Town of Nantucket

To the Nantucket Housing Office for their house recycling program, where private individuals donate unwanted but structurally sound dwellings. The Nantucket Housing Office then relocates the homes, rehabilitates them, and rents them affordably.

For the repair of damaged and endangered gravestones in the Town's cemeteries. Last year's Town Meeting approved funding to study the extent of damage and ascertain requirements for amelioration.

For Phase 1 in a long-term plan to restore the three City-owned historic burying grounds: East Parish (Centre & Cotton Street), West Parish (Cherry & River Streets), and South (WInchester & Needham Streets). Phase I involves stabilizing the burying grounds to make them safe for future work by removing hazardous trees and other vegetation, cleaning and repairing at-risk gravestones, and repairing eroded grades. For project details & documents, see link from program website, www.newtonma.gov/cpa, under "Proposals & Projects."

To study the benefits of establishing an Equity Conversion and Homeownership program which would potentially allow the town to purchase part of the value of a home at current market rates from income-eligible homeowners, providing financial assistance to the homeowner and providing a means by which to allow the property to be sold in the future at an affordable price.

For Habitat for Humanity to install a driveway, waterline, and utilities at the site of a proposed affordable home.

To restore the cast iron fencing around Hingham Cemetery.

To create a park and a pedestrian bridge on historic Whitney Wharf. The park is complete. The bridge was not constructed and $60,000 was returned to the CP Historic Preservation Fund. Funds were rescinded at ATM April 24, 2006

Five acres of wooded upland on Leavitt St., which will protect the boundaries of Wompatuck State Park and is in the Triphammer Pond Watershed, which contributes to the town's water supply. Seller: McCormack Family. Map 92, Lot 17

For historic Town Hall and Main Street restoration master plan.

To purchase the Akin House, a pre-revolution late Georgian Period Cape Cod style home. Renovations to be done by not-for-profit applicant. Renovated structure to be turned back over to the Town.

For restoration of a portion of the old King's Highway, a historic road that ran from Plymouth to Newport and was used in colonial times. Restoration of a granite slab bridge that crosses the Paskamansett River.