GREENFIELD, MA (FRANKLIN COUNTY NOW) — The Greenfield Community Preservation Committee, CPC, reviewed fourteen pre-applications for eligibility in the 2025 fiscal year round of funding. This is the third year Greenfield is funding open space, recreation, historic and housing projects through the Community Preservation Act, CPA, and the Committee will have $213,000 to disperse, including $20,000 from a recently canceled project from a previous year that was completed without the use of CPA funds.

At Thursday’s CPC meeting, they met with applicants to discuss the pre-applications and their eligibility standing. At least one project was determined to not be eligible for CPA funding. The replacement of playground equipment, specifically a swingset, at Oak Courts was deemed ineligible, despite Northampton CPC approving a similar project, as the land the playground is on is not eligible for a recreation project by CPA standards.

The CPC members were able to review all fourteen applications in just over an hour, making considerable progress in efficiency after three rounds of CPA funding. The Committee is also looking to improve the process by asking applicants to share an itemized project proposal to better understand how the funding for the project will be allocated so they can make decisions about dispersing funds, as $213,000 will not be sufficient to fully fund all proposals.

This years’ pre-applications include:

  1. Amy Proietti, Greenfield Pickleball Expansion, Abercrombie Park, Montague City Road
  2. Connecticut River Conservancy, First Franklin County Courthouse Rehabilitation Phase 1 & 2, 15 Bank Row
  3. Franklin County Agricultural Society, Phase 2 Project to Preserve Greenfield’s Agricultural History at the Fairgrounds, 89 Wisdom Way
  4. Greenfield Housing Authority, Greenfield Housing Authority Security Deposit and Rental Assistance Fund, 1 Elm Terrace
  5. Greenfield Housing Authority, Conway Street Creation of Additional Units, 300 Conway Street
  6. Greenfield Housing Authority, Greenfield Housing Authority Swing Set, 7 Oak Courts
  7. Greenfield Housing Authority, Winslow Preservation, 9 Wells Street
  8. Greenfield & Franklin County Pickleball Groups; Youth Basketball, Capital Improvements & Climate Change Mitigation Pickleball & Basketball Courts, Green River Park, 22 Petty Plain Road
  9. Greenfield Public Library, Preservation of Local History Collection at the Greenfield Public Library, 412 Main Street
  10. Greenfield Recreation Department, Hillside Park STEM Installation, Hillside Park, 42 Grove Street
  11. Noble Home LLC, Greywater Recycling Pilot Project, Stone Farm Lane Housing / in the vicinity of 108 Stone Farm Lane,
  12. Pioneer Valley Habitat for Humanity, Inc., Birch Street Project, 5 Birch Street
  13. Valley Community Land Trust, Public Access for Poet’s Seat Ridge Trails, 112 Stone Farm Lane
  14. Valley Housing Cooperative, Acquisition of 12 Unit Multifamily for Accessible Homeownership, 34 Glenbrook Drive