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Parks staff outline permit streamlining and concession lottery; Community Preservation Committee opens funding round

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Assistant Commissioner reported that the city merged park and special-event permits and is working toward online permitting; the department also expanded its concession program using a lottery. Separately, the Community Preservation Committee opened its application round, with recreation and open-space projects eligible under CPA rules.

At the May 8 meeting, Assistant Commissioner Rob Antonelli briefed the Parks and Recreation Commission on multiple administrative initiatives: a revised permitting process, an expanded concession program and the Community Preservation Committee (CPC) funding round.

Antonelli said the city consolidated the special-event permit and the park permit into a single permit and is working toward online permitting; "we merged those into 1 permit," he…

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