<div dir="ltr"><div>Boylston is interested as well.</div><div><br></div><div>Paul Dell'Aquila, AICP<br></div><div>Boylston Town Planner<br></div><div><a href="mailto:townplanner@boylston-ma.gov">townplanner@boylston-ma.gov</a><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 8:51 AM Ethan Parsons via MassPlanners <<a href="mailto:massplanners@masscptc.org">massplanners@masscptc.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">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:<u></u><u></u></p>
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</span></span><u></u>Financial costs and benefits (including of disposing of the properties and retaining them for various potential uses)<u></u><u></u></p>
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</span></span><u></u>Affordable housing opportunities<u></u><u></u></p>
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</span></span><u></u>Environmental costs and benefits<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Many thanks, <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ethan Parsons, AICP<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Director of Planning and Development<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Town of Ipswich, MA<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">978-356-6607 x1<u></u><u></u></p>
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