TOWN OF STOW
Community Preservation Committee
FINAL Minutes, September 24, 2007 Community Preservation Committee Meeting
Present: Community Preservation Committee members: Bob Wilber (Chairman), Kathy Sferra, John Bolton, Dave Walrath, Kate Hogan, Mike Busch, Laura Spear (Laura left at 8:40 when Deb arrived & began taking the Minutes.)
Administrative Assistant: Deb Seith
ft;">STONE WALL
Fred Dodge, Chairman of the Cemetery Committee, and G.H. Gledhill presented a status of the Stone Wall project at the Lower Village cemetery:
color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:9pt;color:#000000;">The contractors enjoy working with historic stone. They took a lot of care. They went with the flow of the land, which looks natural and was probably as intended when the wall was originally built and completed 100 years ago. The “new” stone that was used was covered in moss and matched the existing stones. In the future, we may consider finishing the work on Pompositticut Road, but the work done was well invested.
Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:9pt;color:#000000;">In the past couple of weeks, a number of meetings were held to discuss how to use the Snow property if it was acquired and used for something other than agriculture. A meeting was held with various town representatives and state agencies.
eft;">The price is now $1.3m for the land.
imes New Roman;font-size:9pt;color:#000000;">The CPC could fund the recreation portion of the Snow property (the 7 acres) as acquisition of land and/or the development of the fields. The urban self-help grant would go into the CPA trust. If CPC funds are used on the back 6 acres, we would have to dedicate the use to open space, affordable housing or historic preservation. It removes the flexibility that the Town would have.
out to the housing people to discuss further.
face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:9pt;color:#000000;">SCHC proposes building 45 new units adjacent to the Plantation development. 15 of the new units will be similar to current Plantation units and 30 will be part of a new Supportive Housing program. Supportive Housing is an affordable alternative to assisted living (services are more limited than regular assisted living.) SCHC plans to team up with a service provider (possibly Minute Man Senior Services). They plan on using some local funding and state/federal funds.
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Dave made a motion to Table the discussion, Mike seconded, and approval was unanimous.
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