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North Brookfield to pursue FY25 CDBG application for South Common Street infrastructure
Summary
Central Massachusetts regional planners recommended the Town of North Brookfield apply for FY25 Community Development Block Grant funds to pay for subsurface and surface infrastructure work on South Common Street; the selectmen voted to proceed and to sign an MOU with Central Mass Regional Planning.
Joe Ferguson, principal planner with Central Mass regional planning staff, told the North Brookfield Board of Selectmen on Feb. 25 that staff recommend using the town's FY25 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) application to fund subsurface and surface infrastructure work on South Common Street and adjacent connections and that the town pursue a March public hearing and an April 14 application deadline.
The request matters because CDBG projects must meet one of two federal "national objectives": benefit to low- and moderate-income residents or prevention of blight. Ferguson said the town can qualify South Common Street under the income-benefit objective by documenting concentrations of eligible households near Grove Street Apartments and other multifamily properties, and he suggested pursuing a separate "blight" district in a subsequent…
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