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Home My Public Portal AboutCommunity Preservation Committee -- 2011-04-25 Minutes 1\\1111RI1E f+ !!S�i�,/ii, / _ - O s,.oe 9 ' Town of Brewster 2 l;� `"- Community Preservation 0 'U I I '4" <V U y_ Committee BREWSTER BICENTENNIAL 7-1 -=-L. _; • 2198 Main Street N y :. r Brewster,Massachusetts 02631-1898 „� (508)896-3701 x 133 H! 01 Q uicirilr�iuna�ilu°ll\��"°��\ Fax(508) 896-8089 w Committee Preservation Committee Minutes — April 25, 2007 Present: Elliot Carr, Paul Hush, Paul Ruchinskas, Roy Robinson, Rollie Bassett. Elizabeth Taylor Absent: Steve McKenna, Bill Reyburn Guest: Elbert Ulshoeffer 1. Minutes — March 28th minutes reviewed. MOTION FOR APPROVAL Moved by Bassett, second by Robinson. All "AYE" Signs - Paul will look into this 2. Review of Draft RFQ for quotes for consultant to produce Housing Needs Assessment and Housing Action Plan Ruchinskas — Passed out copies of draft RFQ. The Committee reviewed the form, made changes/corrections. Ruchinskas will be the contact person for the RFP. Sumner will review this before it goes out. This RFP is structured to meet the Planned Production requirements under the State Chapter 40B — basically what it says is that if a Town submits a plan to the State — it must have a Housing Assessment and an Action Plan — there is a set of criteria — this is modeled to follow the State requirements. The benefit of having this, besides giving a road map to the Town in terms of Affordable Housing Action priorities, is that if the plan gets approved by the state, and if the Town creates 3/4 of 1% of its year round units as affordable — in any one year, and in Brewster that means 30 units, then the Town has up to a year — if they get 40b proposals that are totally inappropriate for the Town — they can say no and there is no appeal. It gives the Town a bit more control. To get to 10% right now, we are short 200 units. Community Preservation Committee—Minutes April 25,2007 Page 1 of 4 There was a lot of good data in the 2004 draft Housing Plan which the Housing Advisory Committee sent around for review. It also had some actions. If those proposed actions still make sense — then they should be incorporated into the new Plan priorities. The 2004 Plan never got finalized or approved by the Selectmen. This approval is very important, in that it provides Town political backing to help get a Plan enacted and done. This Needs Assessment has a slightly different format than the State plan, in that it asks the consultant to estimate the need for family rental housing, senior rental housing and for ownership housing for three income tiers, very low income at 50% of median, 50-80% of median and 80-120% of median income. This would provide very useful information. Taylor - This would be broader if not restricted to "family" rental housing — this restricts it too much. Who is supposed to collect all of the data? Ruchinskas — From Jillian, the Housing Partnership, on-line and realtor data. Ruchinskas — Note that this is being done as an RFQ — a request for quotations not an RFP request for proposals. We send this out to people whom we think would be able to do the job we want. I have three names that have done most of the work on the Cape. We have to contact three, but can do more. Discussion of e-mail from Jillian about RFQ. She mentions the illegal apartments. She also thinks that the CPC should be helping update the existing draft Housing Plan, instead of hiring a consultant to do an Assessment and new plan. Hush — How would we find out how many illegal apartments there are and how would we go about identifying these? Ulshoeffer— I think what she is saying, is that if there is a housing plan coming forward that if it could include some component that would allow some of this money to help upgrade all of these illegal apartments. It might be just a simple statement that this could be done. Then people may come in if there is money available. Carr —This is a good idea. Who will process this data, make sure deed restrictions go on for receiving this money, etc., etc.? I hope this report ends up with a number of possible ways to spend housing money that can translate into actual viable projects. HEC has information on ways, other than zoning to create affordable housing — such as workforce housing. Hush — We also need to make changes in our Affordable Housing Bylaw to make it more workable, user friendly. Ruchinskas — We need to meet the State's requirements, but we can also add other priorities, suggestions of our own. Discussion of Brewster's existing Affordable Housing Bylaw requirements, issues relative to illegal apartments. Community Preservation Committee—Minutes April 25,2007 Page 2 of 4 Ulshoeffer- Is this going to be a part of the Local Comprehensive Plan which is required to have a housing component with it? And/or is this for the CPC to use to set their criteria to allocate CPC funds for housing. Ruchinskas — This is not specifically written for the LCP, but it will be available for use when the LCP is worked on. Hush — The Plan can be used as a guide rather than criteria. A guide in the sense that is isn't going to determine every question, but it will serve as a guide when proposals come in. Ulshoeffer- You would not exclude initiatives that might produce housing that has nothing to do with your plan? Hush — Correct. Ruchinskas — I would love for us to be in the situation that we are overwhelmed with housing proposals. MOTION: To approve and send out RFQ with changes Moved by Hush, second, Bassett All "AYE" 3. Other Cape towns financing for Housing. Carr— From my review of Housing work in other Cape towns — the buy-down is the most popular method used. 4. Preparation for Town Meeting. The Board of Selectmen has voted to support all of the CPC article components. 5. Recreation — info on Playground Proposal Bassett- The Commission meets on the first Monday of the month. The Commission voted unanimously to support the proposal for the playground. It was brought up that they felt it should be in the budget for the school, but the Commission also felt that the School Committee would not support funding this themselves. Hush — I would certainly like to see the CPC do a recreation project and this would be open all the time. 6. Administrative Clerk Taylor- I filled out a form for Charlie to sign, which requested the advertisement for a CPC clerk. Marilyn, who did it for us once, would like to the job. It would also be nice to have a pool of names, in case we needed it. She is all set. This would be for minutes and maybe more if we ask for it. Community Preservation Committee—Minutes April 25,2007 Page 3 of 4 Hush —There may be a lot of follow-through we need, research on items such as signs, etc. Hopefully we will be able to use her help with such things. She will be hourly, so that should be OK. 7. Discussion of Historic Preservation Restrictions. 8. There was no other business before the Committee MOTION to Adjourn at 6:30. Moved by Robinson, second by Bassett All "AYE" Respectfully submitted by, Elizabeth Taylor, Secretary Approved: i t Signed: a► 0 tee' Clerk of e Committee ,11 _ii iN23 7:09P11 Cam`-'_" BREWS;ER TOWN CLERK Community Preservation Committee—Minutes April 25,2007 Page 4 of 4