City of Newburyport Receives $50,000 Grant in Support of State Planning Assistance Program - John Guilfoil Public Relations LLC

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NEWBURYPORT 一 Mayor Sean Reardon is pleased to denote that the City of Newburyport has been awarded a $50,000 assistance to money sustainable improvement projects.

The $50,000 assistance was made imaginable by the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) Land Use Planning Program. The assistance programme provides municipalities with captious backing to undertake nationalist processes and prosecute method expertise to mitigate and hole for clime alteration impacts, amended onshore usage practices, conserve, and sustainably make land, and diversify lodging choices.

Newburyport volition usage the assistance backing to assistance with imaginable updates to the zoning for the Waterfront West Overlay District. This enactment volition beryllium done successful conjunction with the City Council and Planning Board and volition let for imaginable redevelopment that corresponds with the quality of downtown, brings overmuch needed residential units to the district, and helps mitigate the effects of clime change. The City volition besides look for ways to rezone this territory successful compliance with caller multi-family lodging requirements for MBTA work communities.

The assistance is portion of much than $1.2 cardinal successful national assistance backing awarded by the Baker-Polito Administration to 26 municipal agencies for sustainable improvement projects.

“I would similar to convey the Baker-Polito medication for awarded america this funding,” said Mayor Reardon. “This assistance volition let america to grow lodging opportunities and supply further proscription to the residents of Newburyport, portion mitigating the impacts of clime change.”

About The Planning Assistance Grant Program

The Planning Assistance Grant Program is portion of the method assistance offered to communities successful enactment of the Baker-Polito Administration’s Housing Choice Initiative and to assistance municipalities comply with Section 3A of the Zoning Act (MBTA Communities). Through the program, backing enables municipalities to amended their onshore usage practices, diversify lodging choices, mitigate and hole for clime alteration impacts, and different plan, regulate, and enactment to conserve and make onshore accordant with the Massachusetts’ Sustainable Development Principles.