Article: Globe North community bulletin board

Article: Affordable housing shortchanged; Open space projects get most of ...
The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA;  December 18, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... in property tax surcharges for community preservation are spending lavishly on open space ... of money spent under the state Community Preservation Act - a law that allows cities ... Statewide, about $48 million in community preservation money - more than a third of all ...

Article: Community preservation success
The Boston Globe;  August 12, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... YEARS ago, the state passed the Community Preservation Act, giving cities and towns that ... projects in communities that have the Community Preservation Act, from the more than 200 units ... the Legislature envisioned. The Community Preservation Act is a unique partnership between ...

Article: Revisiting community preservation
The Boston Globe;  July 27, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... the state's seven-year-old Community Preservation Act has accomplished many of its ... generated an estimated $3 million in Community Preservation fees and residents of Brockton ... basis, more than 40 percent of Community Preservation Act funds spent by cities and towns ...

Article: Panel willing to pay for planner Community ...
The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA;  April 23, 2007 ;     650 words ...The community preservation committee in Randolph is ... committee supports using community preservation money to underwrite the position ... necessary" to fund it from Community Preservation Act funds, Howard said ...

Article: Community preservation options at town meeting.
Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA);  April 24, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Kevin T. Baldwin NORTHBORO - The Community Preservation Committee (CPC) has 10 warrant ... recommendations to allocate the Community Preservation Act (CPA) revenues with at least ... warrant seek total funding from the Community Preservation Fund of $701,450 for the three ...

Article: Kingston goes for tax surcharge; Four years after rejecting ...
The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA;  April 25, 2005 ;     634 words ... ... Kingston voters, who rejected the Community Preservation Act in 2001, overwhelmingly approved ... suggested that the town could use Community Preservation Act money to restore the Frederick ... approval. He said adoption of the Community Preservation Act is part of a Kingston ...

Article: Community preservation committee is almost complete ...
The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA;  August 5, 2006 ;     593 words ... ... appointments to the much-debated community preservation committee. Madden said he will ... established after voters adopted the Community Preservation Act in November by a slim 94 ... the ordinance outlining how the community preservation committee would be made up, originally ...