CPC Adopts Revised Community Preservation Plan

Community Preservation Committee · Meeting of October 14, 2026

SHUTESBURY — The Shutesbury Community Preservation Committee unanimously adopted its updated Community Preservation Plan, setting new deadlines of December 10 for eligibility determinations and February 4 for grant applications. The seven-member committee voted 7-0 by roll call to approve the plan, which softens language requiring matching funds for projects, after a member warned against excluding worthwhile projects "because it didn't have matching funding." The committee also approved minutes from its September 24 meeting, 6-0, and heard an update on affordable housing coordinator Mariah Kurtz's work listing a West Pelham Road Habitat House on the state's subsidized housing inventory. A special town meeting Saturday includes a committee-sponsored article to close out a $10,000 balance from the R-15 West Quabbin Woods grant.

In the full story:

• Chair's Comments: Special Town Meeting Article and Affordable Housing Update
• Review and Vote on Minutes
• Review of the Community Preservation Plan
• New Business
• Adjournment
• Who Was There
• Organizations And Documents Referenced
• The complete report: 2,012 words

Source: the Community Preservation Committee meeting of October 14, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.

Checked against the record: before publication this article was automatically compared with the meeting transcript. It was corrected where it differed.