Downloads
Overview
The Massachusetts Community Preservation Act (CPA) was signed into law by former Governor Paul Cellucci and Lt. Governor Jane Swift on September 14, 2000 (Chapter 267 of the Acts of 2000). The CPA has been amended several times. The CPA allows communities to create a local Community Preservation Fund to raise money through a surcharge of up to 3% of the real estate tax levy on real property for open space protection, historic preservation and the provision of affordable housing. The act also creates a significant state matching fund, which serves as an incentive to communities to pass the CPA.
In the summer of 2007 the EEA, MassGIS and Community Preservation Coalition worked together to create an online version of the CP-3 form which communities complete to give information on projects that the CPA funds. Part of the online submission form is a map to locate a point for the project (if the project has a geographic component). The existing project database was cleaned up and new projects were entered using the tool to catch up the list. The online CP-3 form also allows communities to update information on older projects.
The layer is stored in ArcSDE as CPA_PROJECTS_NEW_PUB.
*NOTE: Approximately half of CP-3 projects have an associated point. Projects without points are not included in this datalayer. Visit the Community Preservation Coalition to access a public database of all CP-3 project information.*
Production
Some points were created by MassGIS, others by the Community Preservation Coalition or town Community Preservation Committees based on an address. Not every project has a single geographic component (and some have more than one).
This datalayer only contains Community Preservation Act projects that have associated points.
Please contact the municipality's CPA committee for more information about projects
Attributes
The layer CPA_PROJECTS_NEW_PUB contains the following attributes:
NOTE: Fields with an asterisk (*) are mandatory. Others depend. Older projects may only have APPR_YR. New projects must have APPR_MONTH, APPR_DAY and APPR_YR.
| PROJID * | Internal project id, generated by application, unique, never reused number |
| TOWN * | Name of town in which the project is located |
| PROJNAME * | Project name |
| TOWN_ID * | Town ID (1-351), follows MassGIS town numbering system |
| APPR_MONTH | Approval month 1-12 |
| APPR_DAY | Approval day 1-31 |
| APPR_YR * | Approval year (some older projects only have year) 2001-2008 |
| OPENSPACE | Project has a CPA OS component? Y/N |
| HOUSING | Project has a CPA Housing component? Y/N |
| RECREATION | Project has a CPA Recreation component? Y/N |
| HISTORIC | Project has a CPA Historic component? Y/N |
| DESCR * | Description |
| HOUSNEW | Number of new housing units |
| HOUSREHAB | Number of rehabilitated housing units |
| LANDBUY * | Project involved land purchase? Y/N/null |
| OSACRES | Acres of openspace |
| HOUSACRES | Acres of housing |
| RECACRES | Acres of recreation |
| HISTACRES | Acres of historic |
| TOTACRES * | Total acres (should equal OSACRES + HOUSACRES + RECACRES + HISTACRES + TBD_ACRES) |
| SELLER | Seller name, if LANDBUY=Y |
| STATUS * | One of these values: Project in progress; Project complete; Project Cancelled |
| HAS_GEOG * | Does project have geographic component? Y/N |
| ADD_NUMBER | Address number |
| ADD_STREET | Address street name |
| CROSSTREET | Address cross street name if any |
| ADD_ZIP | Address zip code |
| OTHER_GEOG | Any other geographic info, such as book/page or map/block/lot or parcel id or a description of location |
| EDITOR* | Last person logged in who edited the project info - currently either ST (Sage CPC intern) or Aleda Freeman or CPC (projects loaded by Aleda Freeman of MassGIS) |
| LASTEDITED* | Date last edited (generated by application) |
| SOURCE* | Either "web edit" - someone added or edited project through web forms or "CPC"- loaded by Aleda and not yet edited |
| HOUSTOT | Total housing units |
| TO_FUND* | Y/N whether appropriation is to a fund |
| TBD_ACRES | Acres of to be determined |
| CANCELED_WHY | Why was project canceled? |
| FUND_TRUST_TYPE | Type of fund or trust |
| NO_RESTRICT_WHY | Why are there no permanent restrictions? |
| CRCON | Conservation Restrictions on Conservation Land |
| CRCON_NAME | Entity holding restriction |
| CRCON_DATE | Date recorded |
| CRCON_BKPG | Book/page |
| CRCON_REG | Which Registry of Deeds |
| CRREC | Conservation Restrictions on Recreation Land |
| CRREC _NAME | Entity holding restriction |
| CRREC _DATE | Date recorded |
| CRREC _BKPG | Book/page |
| CRREC _REG | Which Registry of Deeds |
| APR | Agricultural Preservation Restrictions |
| APR_NAME | Entity holding restriction |
| APR_DATE | Date recorded |
| APR_BKPG | Book/page |
| APR_REG | Which Registry of Deeds |
| HPR | Historic Preservation Restriction |
| HPR _NAME | Entity holding restriction |
| HPR _DATE | Date recorded |
| HPR _BKPG | Book/page |
| HPR_REG | Which Registry of Deeds |
| HR | Housing Restriction |
| HR _NAME | Entity holding restriction |
| HR _DATE | Date recorded |
| HR _BKPG | Book/page |
| HR _REG | Which Registry of Deeds |
| CPA_HOUS | Amount CPA Housing funding |
| CPA_OS | Amount CPA OS funding |
| CPA_REC | Amount CPA Recreation funding |
| CPA_HIST | Amount CPA Historic funding |
| CPA_TOT* | Total CPA funding (should equal CPA_OS + CPA_HOUS + CPA_REC + CPA_HIST + CPA_TBD + TOTBOND) |
| OTH_TOWN | Amount other town funds |
| PRIVATE | Amount private funds |
| STATE | Amount state funds |
| FEDERAL | Amount federal funds |
| OTHER | Amount other funds |
| OTHER_DESC | Description of what other is |
| TOT_COST * | Total cost (should equal CPA_TOT + OTH_TOWN + PRIVATE + STATE + FEDERAL + OTHER + FROM_FUND) |
| TOT_BOND | Total amount bonded |
| BONDTERM | Bond term |
| FROM_FUND | Amount spent from a fund |
| CPA_TBD | Amount CPA funding to be determined (TBD) |
Maintenance
These data are updated on an on-going basis by town Community Preservation Committees through an online data entry tool. Also see the Community Preservation Act (CPA) Towns layer, which provides information on municipalities that have adopted the Community Preservation Act.
Project data from forms submitted by the cities and towns during the Spring-Summer submission period will be reviewed by the CPAC and then returned to MassGIS for publication in the Fall.
Shapefile download updated on August 16, 2023.