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Implementation Documents
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 #2Nantucket - preservation easement #3 Community Preservation Plans Bedford
Project Evaluation Criteria
Applications for CPA Funding
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 This chart demonstrates the allowable uses for CPA funds in each of the CPA categories (open space, housing, historic and recreation). It can be very useful to consult this chart to determine if a project is eligible for CPA funding. CPA Allowable Uses Chart (detailed version with definitions)
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