LOCAL COMMUNITY HOUSING PARTNERSHIP COMMITTEE
This Committee was established at the annual Town Meeting of May 7, 2007.
GOALS
- The Local Community Housing Partnership Committee (LCHPC) shall ensure that adequate affordable housing is created in a way that enhances compliance with the affordable housing requirements of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
- A LCHPC shall be appointed to study the needs and possibilities for affordable housing and to recommend procedures and projects for the implementation of Upton’s affordable housing policy.
- The LCHPC may also initiate action intended to create affordable residential housing units.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Develop affordable housing action plans based on housing needs studies.
- Establishing criteria to evaluate affordable housing proposal consistent with
- Upton’s master plan.
- Making recommendations on the pros and cons of particular housing proposals
- Identifying local, state and federal housing resources to further the development of
- affordable housing.
- Locating available land suitable for affordable housing
- Working with developers to create affordable housing
- Consulting with Board of Selectmen, Planning Board, Conservation Commission,
- Community Preservation Committee, Zoning Board of Appeals and other appropriate
- town boards committees or agencies as needed.
- Increasing public awareness through forums and other public events.
MEETINGS: Monthly |