CPA Projects Database

Additional funds for acquisition, engineering, legal, and site development on the Main Street property. Property will be developed into 11 affordable rental units.

For purchase of an APR on the North Amherst Community Farm, a parcel to be used for community agriculture, education, and preservation.

For purchase of an Agricultural Preservation Restriction (jointly with the MA Dept. of Food and Agriculture) from the Nanartonis Family Trust on land on West Street.

To appropriate funds for the future acquisition of an agricultural preservation restriction to be recommended by the Community Preservation Act Committee. (Article 2)

To fund historically interpretive signs at Dickinson House and West Cemetery

To fund the research and nomination necessary to expand the East Village NHR district, and for individual NHR nominations of outlying or isolated historic buildings.

To fund a survery of North and South Amherst Cemeteries, established in 1818. The survey includes: physical boundary survey using both traditional and GIS methods, inventory of existing burial info, and documentation of site conditions through photography and other means.

To fund the acquisition of a conservation restriction, to be managed and controlled by the Amherst Conservation Commission. Seller: David N. and Phyllis H. Smith

Monies appropriated to the Amherst Housing Authority to fund repairs to Keet House, and to authorize the acceptance of an affordable housing restriction.

To fund survey and design work on the North Pleasant Cemetery entrance to provide pedestrian access to the cemetery given that planning will soon begin for capital streetscape improvements along the east of N Pleasant St. between Kellog St. and the Southern driveway of the Carriage Shops.

To fund a sign program to provide a plan and some informal signs to help preserve Town and School athletic fields, parks, and adjoining conservation areas

Fee for management of deferred payment loan program

To provide Amherst's local match for grants offered by the Mass. Historical Commission for the purpose of completing Amherst's Historic Resource Inventory

Additional funds for Open Space supporting fees (appraisals and surveys)

To purchase an APR on a parcel of land in North Amherst, to add to a block of farmland already protected by APRs owned by Amherst and Hadley. Seller: W.D. Cowls

For the design and installation of signs signaling vehicular entrances to the National Historic Register (NHR) District, as well as pedestrian signs interpreting a few selected buildings and sites within the NHR.

The first of five annual requests for appropriations to reimburse the State for the value of 1.7 acres removed from the APR Program in order to preserve the Kimball farmhouse.

These funds will underwrite the cost (bond debt service) of restoring the exterior masonry of the 1889 Town Hall.

Built around 1864, this historic outbuilding is a contributing original structure in the Dickinson National Historic Register District. The $8,800 requested by The Woman’s Club is for scraping, power-washing, and repainting ($8,000) and removal of adjacent trees ($800) to protect the carriage house walls from excessive moisture. The Woman’s Club is a private organization bound by the terms of its ownership of the property to preserve the buildings and landscape. The Club has agreed to the conveyance of an historic preservation restriction to the Town in exchange for this CPA funding support.

Lawrence Swamp Complex - Amherst has worked for more than thirty years to protect over 600 acres of land in and around Lawrence Swamp in an effort to safeguard one of our critical drinking water sources. In the process, an extensive complex of public and private lands has been conserved in a mosaic of parcels that provide contiguous wildlife habitat and a working landscape for sustainable farming. The Tietjen land is one of the largest unprotected parcels remaining in this complex. Seller: Tietjen

Habitat for Humanity has requested an additional $70,000 to fund the balance of the infrastructure and construction materials for Housing at Stanley Street on land donated by Amherst College. Habitat for Humanity originally requested $60,000 for this development but only received half of that amount as part of the Town’s FY 08 CPA appropriations. The Housing Partnership/Fair Housing Committee is therefore recommending that Habitat for Humanity receive an additional $30,000 to honor their original request.

 Preservation of a Critical Historic Landscape and View – Town ownership of these lots will preserve the last unprotected, privately-owned section of a critically-important historic landscape constituting the core of the Dickinson National Historic Register District. This landscape extends along the north side of Main Street from Sweetser Park on the west to the Leonard and Henry Hills mansion grounds on the east. The current owners are clearing their portion of the overgrown hedge line between the two properties to restore and enhance this view. Permanent protection of this view of the Henry Hills mansion will be obtained under historic preservation agreements being negotiated for the mansion lot (#6) and one other adjacent lot (#3).  Future Historic Landscape Park – The Historical Commission is proposing the acquisition and preservation of these lots as an open historic landscape park to: 1) preserve the eastern entrance into the Dickinson District, 2) provide a potential historic interpretive site along the street edge, and 3) preserve green space that will complement and balance the commercial development south across Main Street

A 26 acre old field habitat adjacent to Lawrence Swamp and high priority on the Amherst OSRP. Seller: Andrew Olendzki. 2 parcels.

Pioneer Valley Habitat request for Community Preservation Act Funds to purchase construction materials needed to build the third home at the Stanley Street Amherst site. Community Preservation Act Funds are a very important element in the funding for Habitat homes