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ANNOUNCEMENTS:
2010 Solicitation - First Round - Requests due by February 12, 2010
GUIDELINES FOR REQUESTS:
CONTACT:
Patty
Daley
Technical Services Director
CAPE COD COMMISSION
3225 Main Street
P.O. Box 226
Barnstable, MA 02630
(508) 362-3828
In 2008 and 2009, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts allocated funds to each of the state's 13 regional planning agencies, including the Cape Cod Commission, to help municipalities with sustainable development and to encourage municipalities to form partnerships to achieve planning and development goals consistent with state and regional priorities. The funding process is shown below:
Cape Cod activities funded for 2008 under the then-called "Expedited Permitting" program included the following projects:
- Town of Barnstable – $17,309 – for traffic counts and transportation and geographic data and mapping assistance related to the Downtown Hyannis Growth Incentive Zone.
- Town of Bourne – $7,922 – to continue its efforts toward the revitalization of downtown Buzzards Bay, with progress towards a potential Growth Incentive Zone to stimulate investment in the area.
- Town of Eastham – $11,586 – to help evaluate development options for a large parcel of town-owned land in the proposed North Eastham Village Center area.
- Town of Falmouth – $6,419 – to help evaluate the feasibility of “district increment financing” for public improvements that are needed to stimulate development along East Main Street.
- Town of Sandwich – $56,229 – to support an active public participation process for local planning and potential zoning changes related to “smart growth” and enhanced economic development in the Cotuit Road–Quaker Meetinghouse Road–Route 130 area.
- Town of Truro – $11,267 – to help prepare a watershed management plan for the Pamet Lens aquifer, which provides drinking water to the towns of Truro and Provincetown.
Through what was known in 2009 as the "District Local Technical Assistance," or DLTA, funding program, the state encouraged municipalities to work together to achieve or enhance cost-effective services or ongoing collaborations. The state made $155,837 from the DLTA program available to the Cape Cod Commission to redistribute to Cape towns. The state’s priority was for regional efforts, and the contract with the Commission required at least 30 percent of the funding be applied in that way. All funds had to be used by December 30, 2009. The funded Cape Cod regional projects included:
- an analysis of options for regionalization of public safety functions for the Outer/Lower Cape ($50,000);
- a phase-one feasibility analysis of establishing a stormwater utility for stormwater management and financing options, initially for Yarmouth but applicable to all towns ($10,000);
- a refinement of mapping for a “zones of contribution” model of drinking water supplies within Barnstable and shared with neighboring towns ($15,289);
- preparation of an overlay district for “workforce housing” zoning, initially for Chatham but useful as a model for other towns ($5,705);
- an analysis of municipal solid waste disposal alternatives Capewide ($45,274);
- and, an analysis of Route 132 in Barnstable, with recomendations for traffic and access management, redevelopment opportunities, design, landscaping, and signage ($23,739).