[Massplanners] Public property reuse

[Paul Dell'Aquila]

Boylston is interested as well.

Paul Dell'Aquila, AICP
Boylston Town Planner
townplanner at boylston-ma.gov

On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 8:51 AM Ethan Parsons via MassPlanners <
massplanners at masscptc.org> wrote:

> Ipswich is kicking off public property reuse projects for the
> to-be-vacated police and central fire stations when the public safety
> departments move into a new combined public safety facility in a few years.
> We’re doing this work in-house for now. We’re at an early stage with this
> work and are not ready to solicit bids for anything. We’ve not even decided
> if that’s something that we’re interested in doing.  We’re interested in
> the decision-making process that others have gone through when considering
> potential reuse ideas and specifically would like to gather examples of
> scoring/ranking matrices for potential reuse ideas. The reuse committee is
> aware of many ideas for the properties and would like to have a system for
> scoring and ranking the ideas to help narrow down its focus. To help
> clarify my question further, our thinking is that said scoring system would
> include considerations such as:
>
>
>
> -          Financial costs and benefits (including of disposing of the
> properties and retaining them for various potential uses)
>
> -          Affordable housing opportunities
>
> -          Environmental costs and benefits
>
>
>
> We’re also interested in public property reuse studies and in particular
> for generally comparable properties of ¼ acre to 1 acre, in a town center,
> whether developed or not.
>
>
>
> Many thanks,
>
>
>
> Ethan Parsons, AICP
>
> Director of Planning and Development
>
> Town of Ipswich, MA
>
> 978-356-6607 x1
>
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