Final Report
TO: Community Preservation Committee
FROM: Wayne Feiden, FAICP, Director of Planning and Sustainability
RE: Conservation Fund #9 CLOSEOUT
DATE: June 18, 2016
Thank you for the study funding of the CPA Conservation Fund. Although collectively this has
been a significant CPA investment, most of the individual expenditures are relatively small. This
fund has allowed us to move quickly on land purchasing and financial leveraging opportunities
that often would otherwise be lost.
In the past, the CPC asked us to present our conservation fund summary to cover all the
Conservation Funds CPA has funded. As a result, even though this report is for Conservation
Fund #9, this report covers all CPA funded Conservation Fund projects up to today. The CPA
tracking spreadsheets show each charge, if you want that.
Open Space Preservation Project Acres CPA share Leveraged
Projects January 2016 to May 2016 to close of Conservation Fund #9
Talon Trust, Saw Mill Hills 2* $1,600 $0
Soft costs (appraisal)
Broad Brook Greenway 0 $7,235 $0
Soft costs (survey for survey to support CPA required CR)
Bobala (Sheldon Field) 2* $2,227 $2,000
Land acquisition (split with Conservation Fund 10)
Zewski, Rocky Hill Greenway* See entry $979 See entry
Soft costs (closing property tax and recording fees) below below
Projects November 2014-December 2015
LaValley, Saw Mil Hills 17 $17,425 $0
Land acquisition
Ksiniewicz, Historic Mill River 3.31 $3,480 $6,000
Soft costs (MAS donating CR stewardship and legal costs)
Steidler, Saw Mill Hills 4.9 $275 $4,900
Soft costs (land donated in lieu of back taxes)
Open Space Preservation Project Acres CPA share Leveraged
Zewski, Rocky Hill Greenway* 4.0* $5,195 $12,000
Soft costs (closing on land in March 2016, MAS donating CR
stewardship and legal costs and environmental assessment)
Derouin, Broad Brook* 1.0* $5,365 $0
Soft costs
Connecticut River Greenway CR $200 $5,000
Soft costs (required as CPA project- Friends of N’Hampton
Recreation accepted CR for $5,000 below market)
Golash, Conte Fish and Wildlife Refuge 0.25 $125 $2,000
soft costs (land donated in lieu of back taxes)
Dostal APR, Park Hill APRs 1.14 $1,570 $0
Acquisition and soft costs
Baye APR* 0.5 $700 $0
Soft costs (APR from separate CPA APR account)
Reutener, Mineral Hills* 1* $1,550 $0
Soft costs (purchase from separate CPA grant & donations)
Hayssen, Stone Ridge Pond 1.29 $200 $4,000
Soft costs
Hewes, Rocky Hill Greenway* 5* $20,530 $0
Soft costs (purchase from separate CPA grant & donations)
Vollinger, Broad Brook* 1* $1,815 $0
Soft costs (purchase from CPA grant & donations)
McKown, Broad Brook 12.1 $10,044 $3,000
Land acquisition, soft costs
Totals through November 2014 to December 2015 55.7*** $80,513 $36,900
Projects through October 2014
Bosworth purchase: Mineral Hills Conservation Area 15 $10,000 $20,000
Leveraged other purchases Saw Mill Hills & Meadows
Land acquisition, soft costs
Bean Farm: Mill River Greenway 2 $0 $47,500
Use of funds for deposit, funds then refunded
Bleiman: Meadows Conservation Area 10 $8,927 $13,000
Soft costs
360 N. King: Broad Brook-Fitzgerald Lake Greenway 12 $23,410 $55,000
Land acquisition and soft costs
Beaver Brook Conservation Area* 2 $10,434 $10,000
Soft costs
Zimmerman CR: Broad Brook-Fitzgerald Lake Greenway 36 $19,475 $10,000
Land acquisition and soft costs
Beaver Brook Arch Bridge: Mill River Greenway 4 $24,243 $14,562
Land acquisition and soft costs
Norwottuck Rail Trail extension ROW 2 $1,145 $5,000
Open Space Preservation Project Acres CPA share Leveraged
Soft costs
West: Saw Mill Hills Conservation Area* 18 $9,195 $6,000
Land acquisition and soft costs
James: Venturers’ Field Road APR: Meadows Conservation 5 $171 $5,000
Soft costs
Turkey Hill: Mineral Hills Cons. Area* 1 $3,500 $6,000
Soft costs
Lane: Connecticut River Greenway cons. & recreation* 3 $2,973 $50,000
Soft costs
Main Street/Leeds: Mill River Greenway 2 $22,700 $37,500
Soft costs
Boy Scout Island area: Conn. River Greenway 13 $11,500 $5,500
Land acquisition and soft costs (50% interest in 26 acres=13)
Girl Scouts (I) Broad Brook-Fitzgerald Lake Greenway 23 $21,523 $8,000
Land acquisition and soft costs
Bean Allard/Mill River Greenway and Community Garden* 2 $198 $1,100
Soft costs
Ryan Rd/Sylvester Road: Saw Mill Hills Cons. Area 22 $13,755 $15,000
Land acquisition and soft costs
Skibiski purchase: Mineral Hills Conservation Area* 1 $1,309 $500
Soft costs
Ward Ave: Mill River Greenway .1 $6,807 $500
Soft costs
Kestrel Trust Conservation Restrictions** $45,000 $10,000
(two transactions to catch up with five years of CPA)
Sullivan: Broad Brook-Fitzgerald Lake Greenway 2 $20,617 $5,000
Land acquisition and soft costs
Bookends: Mineral Hills* $6,695 $2,000
Soft costs
Girl Scouts II: Broad Brook-Fitzgerald Lake Greenway 17 $20,900 $4,000
Land acquisition and soft costs
Forest Legacy: Broad Brook-Fitzgerald Lake Greenway 36 $14,132 $9,000
Land acquisition and soft costs
Chatfield Conservation Restriction: Mill River Greenway $1,846 $6,000
Soft costs
Gonski: Historic Mill River Greenway 10 $12,633 $2,500
Land acquisition and soft costs (50% interest in 20 acres=10)
Dike Road closure: Historic Mill River Greenway $75 $5,000
Soft costs
Pomeroy Terrace: Meadows Conservation Area 5 $4,825 $10,000
Soft costs
Broad Brook Gap (Vollinger, Gleason and Kubosiak): Broad 7 $7,347 $11,000
Open Space Preservation Project Acres CPA share Leveraged
Brook-Fitzgerald Lake Greenway*
Land acquisition and soft costs
Turkey Hill Road discontinuance: Mineral Hills Cons. Area 2 $375 $1,000
Hatfield Road: Connecticut River Greenway 6 $3,500 $13,000
Soft costs
Jail Farm: Meadows Conservation Area (future closing) $325 $1,000
Soft costs
Jasinski Agriculture Preservation Restriction: Meadows* 4 $1,622 $1,000
Soft costs
Burke CR: Park Hill/Parsons Brook complex 19.5 $9,650 $2,000
Land acquisition and soft costs
Rothenberg: Broad Brook Greenway/Fitzgerald Lake 9 $11,198 $4,000
Land acquisition and soft costs
Szymanski: Saw Mill Hills* 1 $2,820 $1,670
Soft costs
Florence Conservation Area expansion* 1 $125 $5,000
Soft costs
Parcel D: Northampton State Hospital APR 36 $119 $72,000
Soft costs
Hewes: Rocky Hill Conservation Area 0.5 $225 $500
Soft costs
Reutener: Saw Mill Hills Conservation Area* 2 $2,475 $1,000
Soft costs
Three Dike Road parcels (Atwood closed): Historic Mill River 2 $6,840 $2,000
Greenway*
Soft costs
Hayssen: Brookwood Marsh Conservation Area 0.5 $150 $500
McKown: Broad Brook Greenway 4 $2,321 $1,000
Totals through October 2014 3,357*** $346,355 $502,832
NOTES:
Costs are approximate because some valuations are very difficult, especially when soft costs and/or bargain sales
leverages donations of all or part of the value of land. This is not a formal accounting of expenses, which is available in the
CPA spreadsheets)
*To avoid double-counting for projects with other CPA funding, this table assigns the acreage directly attributable to the
Conservation Fund investment or funding based on the Conservation Fund pro-rata share of the project. Given that the
Conservation Fund makes these projects possible, we could claim a much higher credit
**CPA-required conservation restrictions as a result of DOR withdrawing their opinion letter are charged here, not to
specifically funded CPA projects, which significantly increased the cost per acre.
***This does not include projects funded as separate CPA projects outside of the Conservation Fund.