ENERGY--Habitat_Agreement-Woodland_Drive_
CITY OF NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS
Agreement—Affordable Housing at Woodland Drive, Northampton
THIS AGREEMENT, executed this 15h day of February 2022 by and between the City of
Northampton, a Massachusetts municipal corporation, acting through its Office of Planning & Sustainability
with a mailing address of Wayne Feiden, Director of Planning & Sustainability, 210 Main Street,
Northampton, MA 01060, hereinafter called "City" and Pioneer Valley Habitat for Humanity, Inc. a
Massachusetts nonprofit corporation with a principal place of business at 140 Pine Street, Florence,
Massachusetts 01062 (mail address: PO Box 60642, Florence, MA 01062), hereinafter called "Habitat".
This is a no-cost agreement, in accordance with City Council Order #20.140, approved by City
Council on November 19, 2020 and approved by the Mayor on November 23, 2020.
Whereas, the City is donating 0.7347 acres, more or less, parcel of land located on the easterly side of
Woodland Drive in Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, 140 Woodland Drive, and shown as
Lot 1 on a plan of land entitled “Approval Not Required Plan of Land Located in Northampton,
Massachusetts (Hampshire County)”, Prepared for The City of Northampton, by The Berkshire Design
Group, Inc., dated May 17, 2021 and recorded in Hampshire County Registry of Deeds in Plan Book 250,
Page 110.
Whereas, Habitat is using the property for an affordable single family home as outlined in a regulatory
agreement to be recorded prior to or with the deed from the City to Habitat.
Whereas, it is City policy that affordable housing units developed with the City’s Building and
Sustainability Standards, attached and incorporated into this agreement.
Now therefore, Habitat agrees to follow those attached Building and Sustainability Standards in the
development of an affordable housing on Woodland Drive.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF the Vendor caused these presents to be signed and approved by Gina-
Louse Sciarra its Mayor and the said Owner has caused these presents to be signed and its official
seal to be hereto affixed by its officer or agent thereunto duly authorized (by the attached corporate
resolution). This instrument shall take effect as a sealed instrument.
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Megan McDonough, Executive Director, Pioneer Valley Habitat for Humanity:
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Wayne Feiden, FAICP, Director of Planning & Sustainability, City of Northampton
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Mayor Gina-Louise Sciarra, City of Northampton
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Building and Sustainability Standards
Affordable Housing with Significant City Funding
The City of Northampton aims to support affordable housing, reduce on-going utility costs for
affordable housing providers and residents, and achieve community-wide net carbon neutrality by
2050 (city operations carbon neutrality by 2030).
As part of these efforts, the City has created minimum standards for affordable housing projects
which include significant City support. This support comes in the form of CDBG funding, CPA
funding, short term rental fee funding, Tax Increment Financing, donation or bargain sale of surplus
city land, conservation limited development projects, City obtaining state grants that support
affordable housing (e.g., MassWorks and Housing Choice), and new zoning density incentives.
These standards will not automatically apply for projects with small City contributions (e.g., housing
rehabilitation or soft second affordable housing mortgages). The standards will also be adjusted for
unique circumstances, such as rehabilitation of existing buildings where some of the performance
standards are not practical.
HERS ratings do not represent a linear relationship between energy savings and effort or expense. It
is much harder to go from HERS 50 to 45 than from 55 to 50. However the difference in energy
savings from 55 to 50 is larger than going from 50 to 45. On top of that, there is a small house
penalty that makes it harder to get a lower HERS rating that with a large house, and yet a smaller
house still inherently has a smaller carbon footprint than a larger home. DOE’s ZERH program has
a more lenient HERS rating requirement, but does end up with a house that, at least in theory, can
have energy bills that net out to zero dollars. For a lower income person, this is a big benefit. If the
least cost way to achieve this is a ZERH, then we think this should remain an option. One benefit to
using the ZERH standard is that we can count on DOE to revise it as technology and other
standards change.
-See detailed standards on the next page.
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New Construction Standards
(will be adjusted for rehabilitation projects)
1 to 3-Family Homes Multi-Family Multi-family
≤1,500 sq ft >1,500 sq ft ≤600 sq ft >600 sq ft
For all Projects:
Minimum wall insulation R30 R30 R30 R30
Minimum attic insulation R60 R60 R60 R60
Minimum Foundation walls/slab, lowest floor 1 R20 R20 R20 R20
Minimum lowest floor if on piers R30 R40 R30 R40
No fossil fuels for heating and indoor appliances. YES YES YES YES
No fossil fuels for water heating YES YES See below See below
90th percentile DHW demand must be satisfied by
non-fossil fuel equipment. Fossil fuel equipment
may be used to meet the remaining peak demand
above the 90th percentile.
N/A N/A YES YES
IPMAO Water Demand Calculator may be used
for water demand sizing in lieu of sizing methods
from the Uniform Plumbing Code (UPC) and the
International Plumbing Code (IPC).
N/A N/A YES YES
Must meet Energy Star, Building Code, Energy
Stretch Code, Health Code in effect when built
YES YES YES
IF site is solar suitable then DOE Zero Energy
Ready Home
YES YES YES YES
IF site is not solar suitable (shading, roof,
orientation), then Maximum HERS rating
50 HERS 42 HERS 45 HERS 40 HERS
1. Where foundation walls and slab are insulated, insulation combined with interstitial materials should sum to R20 regardless
of orientation (see, for example, the sketch below).
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