5_MVP Action Grant Slide NorthamptonClimate Resilient Downtown Affordable Housing
Northampton FY23-24
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Valley Community Development
Office of Planning & Sustainability
Action Grant
30 climate resilient studios for low-income individuals in downtown, with a preference for those who are unhoused. Project seeks to become passive-house certified and use ground source
heat pumps for heating/cooling. Site donated by the City, was part of a parking lot and a dilapidated public staircase. Extensive community engagement, esp. with people with lived experience.
$85,000 +
Equitable outcomes for Environmental Justice (EJ) and other priority populations; Employing Nature Based Solutions (NBS)
$921,300
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Coonamessett River Restoration Project: Phase 2
Falmouth FY19
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Coonamessett River Trust
Coonamessett Greenway Heritage Trail
$760,000
Construction and On-the-Ground Implementation
Employing Nature-Based Solutions; Achieving Broad and Multiple Community Benefits
Leveraged a multitude of partners and funding sources to make a broad impact in the community.
Included restoring a cranberry bog to its natural self-sustaining wetland, re-establishing floodplain connectivity, and improving a historic herring run.
Community engagement included an “adopt-a-herring” program and outdoor classrooms.
$1.17 million
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