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Hubbardston CPC votes to send library basement rehabilitation to town meeting
Summary
The Community Preservation Committee agreed the library's proposal to rehabilitate the lower level is an allowable historic-category use and voted to move the application to the March town meeting; the committee also agreed on a funding split of $10,000 from the historic reserve and $30,710 from undesignated reserves.
The Town of Hubbardston's Community Preservation Committee voted to forward the library's application to a town meeting warrant after concluding the project's work to rehabilitate the building's basement fits the historic category of Community Preservation Act funding.
The application, for roughly $40,710 (applicants list $40,710; committee discussion also referenced "about $41,000"), would repurpose and rehabilitate space inside the town library rather than add new square footage. "As chair, I am completely comfortable saying that this would meet an allowable use," the committee chair said in the discussion, citing state CPA guidance on allowable verbs for historic-property projects.
Why it matters: The committee must first decide whether a project is allowable under CPA historic rules before voters see the question at town meeting. If the town meeting approves,…
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