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“We need the Community Preservation Act because I think it’s an important initiative,” she said.
According to the language of the CPA, matching state funds only are given to communities that meets requirements for spending on affordable housing, open space and historical preservation. Cambridge currently meets this standard and will not need to increase taxes to receive state funding. However, in cities where the cutoff...
Twelve other Mass. municipalities besides Cambridge also voted on the Community Preservation Act yesterday.
Another fifteen communities are planning similar Community Preservation Act ballot initiatives in the spring.
Some had hoped that a ballot referendum on the Community Preservation Act might draw more voters to the polls.