Northampton reaffirms committment to CPA

In recent years, there have been several communities that have had ballot initiatives to stop participation in CPA. These have all been defeated most recently in Northampton.

Six years after city voters first approved it by a small margin, they overwhelmingly endorsed the Community Preservation Act, a program that has paid for popular projects such as the restoration of Forbes Library and the preservation of the Bean/Allard farmlands.

Northampton voters soundly rejected a referendum to repeal the CPA by a vote of 6,204 to 2,732, a margin of better than 2 to 1.