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ARTICLE 8 (b) Project: CPA Conservation Restriction Enforcement Funds CPA Category: Open Space Amount Requested: $25,000 Amount Recommended: $25,000 CPC Vote: (9 -0) Project Description: This project requests funding to draft and record legal documentation and pay a non - profit organization, such as Citizens for Lexington Conservation (CLC), to hold, monitor, and enforce the required conservation restrictions on five parcels of conservation land acquired with CPA funds. Conservation restrictions, approved by the applicable municipality and the State Department of Conservation and Recreation and recorded with the Registry of Deeds, ensure that the protected land will remain open and undeveloped in perpetuity. The five conservation parcels to be restricted are: the two Goodwin Properties, Land off Cedar Street (9.5 acres), Land off Hartwell Avenue (10.7 acres), the Leary Land, 116 Vine Street (14 acres), Cotton Farm, 121 Marrett Road (4.2 acres), and Wright Farm, 241 Grove Street (12.6 acres). The Busa property is not yet included in this list pending the final delineation of open space and community housing acreage. Project Goals and Objectives: • Secure the required conservation restrictions on the five parcels acquired with CPA funds pursuant to the Community Preservation Act (CPA). • Use CPA monies to pay a non - profit organization to hold, monitor, and enforce the conservation restriction on each parcel, such funding allowed pursuant to Section 12 of the CPA statute. Project Benefit: This project will benefit the Town of Lexington by allowing the Town to fulfill its obligation pursuant to the CPA to place conservation restrictions on parcels acquired for conservation open space purposes. (In the case of the Leary property, a conservation restriction would be placed on a portion of the parcel.) Funding Request: This project requests $25,000 to fund the holding, monitoring, and enforcement by a non - profit organization, such as CLC, of the required conservation restrictions for five conservation parcels purchased with CPA funds.