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No Bids Returned for Forest Avenue Housing Project; Select Board Urges Further Review of RFP
Summary
The Yarmouth Select Board was told no bids were submitted on the Housing Authority's Forest Avenue project. Staff and board members flagged the RFP for omitting details about potential water-supply and stormwater impacts and discussed inviting the Housing Authority to an early July meeting to revisit site design and alternatives.
No bids were received on the Yarmouth Housing Authority's Forest Avenue redevelopment, town staff told the Select Board on May 13.
The lack of responses prompted Select Board members and staff to raise concerns that the authority's request for proposals did not explicitly call out potential impacts to the public water supply (including nitrogen and "emerging contaminants") or the need for robust stormwater and groundwater management at the high-groundwater site. "It gives us an additional opportunity," Staff member Bob…
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