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District Local Technical Assistance (DLTA)
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For cities and towns that want to add new or enhanced services without all of budget necessary to fund these activities: SRPEDD offers Technical Assistance
The District Local Technical Assistance program, funded statewide at $2 million for FY 2010-FY 2011 by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the legislature, allows Regional Planning Agencies to provide much needed planning assistance to their member communities. This funding allows SRPEDD to assist cities and towns with projects that address one or more of the State Sustainable Development Principles and/or support the collaboration among communities to develop shared land use objectives. This funding is also to be used with municipal partnerships that encourage municipalities to work together to achieve and/or enhance cost-effective service delivery or create and sustain ongoing collaboration/consultation on issues affecting the municipalities.
With this solicitation, SRPEDD is offering Technical Assistance to member communities in two categories; municipal partnerships and sustainable development / land use.
Collaborations among municipalities in the areas of cost effective municipal service delivery or planning and development issues. Examples of work in these areas would include:
- Shared services and staff positions
- Regional 911 dispatch, ACO, Veterans Agent, Inspectors, Health Agents, technology and IT services
- Public Health District Incentive Grant Program
- Cooperative agreements/collaboration among communities
- Regional analysis of affordable housing
- Waste removal – processing – recycling
- Green energy solutions
- Joint/collective purchasing
- Large / specialized capital equipment and consumables (SRPEDD can handle 30B process)
- E-Government initiatives; online permits, fee and bill payments, inter-departmental data access
- Cost savings measures that benefit 2 or more communities
- Other municipal activities, delivered more efficiently on a multi-community basis
Examples of work in this area would include:
- Bylaw/ordinance preparation and implementation
- Housing district bylaws/ordinances, including bylaws for workforce housing
- Economic development district bylaw /ordinances, including development of mixed-use districts
- Open space residential design bylaws
- Low impact development regulations
- Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) bylaws/ordinances
- Permitting procedures for prompt and reliable permitting for clean energy / co-generation facilities, economic development districts and/or housing districts
- Master plan elements
- Open Space Plan elements
- Corridor analyses among 2 or more communities relating to zoning, transportation, housing, economic development, and open space protection
Massachusetts Sustainable Development Principles
FY2012 DLTA Solicitation and Assistance Request Form
DLTA Projects
DLTA Fact Sheet