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Reports & Presentations | Pending Pre & Full Proposals submitted to, under consideration by, or recommended for funding by the Community Preservation Committee (CPC)
updated 4 June 2013 to include information about new pre-proposals | | Active Funded Projects funding has been appropriated by the Board of Aldermen, and work is in progress, last updated 3 April 2013 | | Debt-Financed Projects total cost & payment schedules, last updated January 2013 | Currently Available Funds showing impact of current-year appropriations and potential impact of: CPC recommendations not yet voted on by the Board of Aldermen, proposals not yet recommended by the CPC, and projects for which only pre-proposals have been submitted
updated 4 June 2013 to include information about new pre-proposals | For the Newton Comptroller's most recent quarterly report on committed & available funds,
look for "Community Preservation Fund" under "Special Revenue Funds" on this webpage. | | Funding Forecast based on estimates from the Massachusetts Dept. of Revenue, Community Preservation Coalition & Newton Comptroller, last updated January 2013 | | All Projects map & lists, with project descriptions, addresses, dates funding by CPA-resource, etc. through December 2012 | | All Funds & Spending through Fy12, with projections for Fy13, including all sources of funding, spending by resource, etc. | Setting Newton's CPA Grant Priorities | | ▲ Scroll up on this page to the 'Navigation' section for these links: ▲ | Guidelines & Forms
for current Funding Guidelines &
What can be Funded? slide show | Reports - Current
for currently available funds
& a funding forecast | | In 2011-12, the CPC sponsored a series of Happy 10th Birthday, Newton CPA! activities to celebrate what Newton had achieved in its first decade with the CPA, and to help identify future funding priorities. | | For the results of our year-long Community Survey, click here. | | | | To suggest a new project or vote for someone else's suggestion, click here. | To explore an interactive map of past projects,
click here. | A Community Atlas for Making Choices about Change Change is part of Newton's community character, so "community preservation" in Newton means making choices about change. Click below for large-scale maps with explanatory notes. Some maps may load slowly. | | 
| Community Turnover
Every Newton neighborhood has experienced significant turnover in the last two decades. It's hard for a constantly changing community to think long-term, but community history can help. | | 
| Historic Villages
Newton's neighborhoods are all historic, but they're not all the same. Each neighborhood reflects the transportation options available when it was first developed. The City's land use patterns still reflect this history. | | 
| Housing & Economic Diversity
Preserving community means preserving a mix of people as well as places. The proportion of low- and moderate-income households in Newton is shrinking, along with the supply of housing they can afford. But some neighborhoods are still less unaffordable than others. | | 
| Changing Historic Fabric
Newton is a built-out community, but it is still changing through re-development. This map color-codes all existing buildings by the time period when they were built, and shows the distribution of recent demolition permits. | | 
| Designated Historic Resources
Many historic properties in Newton have been documented. Some are protected as local landmarks or in local historic districts. But there is still a wide gap between the places recognized as historic and all the places with a history worth recognizing (see map above). | | 
| Undesignated Open Space
How much of Newton's remaining undeveloped land should be preserved, where -- & how? This map shows all land, regardless of property boundaries, not already occupied by a building, paved for a road or parking lot, or "designated" as open space (see next map). | | 
| Designated Open Space
Many of Newton's parks, playgrounds, conservation areas, cemeteries and golf courses are partly on low-lying, wet land that remained undeveloped -- and inexpensive -- into the early 20th century. This map shows the uneven distribution of these "designated" open spaces. | | 
| Historic Water & Wetlands
Compare this map of "Areas to Be Drained" to the map above. This is also the "1892 map of the 2010 floods." Newton's natural systems have been massively re-engineered since the late 19th century, but sometimes nature overwhelms our engineering. | | 
| Current Water, Wetlands & Watersheds
The 5 main streams on the map above still connect Newton neighborhoods to each other & to the Charles River, but now they run mostly through underground culverts or fenced ditches. Many Newton residents learn their "watershed address" only during floods! |  | |
