Interested in working with MAPC on a project? We are currently soliciting ideas for projects that will commence in the winter and spring of 2022.
This week, MAPC released a Call for Project Concepts that could be undertaken with assistance from our Technical Assistance Program. Municipalities can submit concepts for a diverse range of single- and multi-community projects.
Eligible projects cover a wide variety of topics, including but not limited to:
- Housing production and preservation, especially in regard to affordable housing;
- Economic development, including economic recovery from the impacts of the COVID-19 recession;
- Regionalization and shared services;
- Municipal effectiveness and efficiency, including municipal IT;
- Public engagement in planning and municipal governance;
- Improving public safety and public safety practices;
- Public health, including response to COVID-19;
- Climate change (mitigation or adaptation/resilience);
- Clean energy and reducing the carbon footprint;
- Fair housing; equitable transit-oriented development (E-TOD);
- Bicycle/pedestrian mobility;
- Environmental and resource protection;
- Creative community placemaking;
- Arts and culture planning;
- Projects to improve equity and inclusion in the region; and
- Research-based proposals or the development of best practices.
Each TAP solicitation includes priorities for that particular year. This year, projects that promote regional collaboration and serve multiple communities, advance racial equity in the region, promote COVID recovery, and/or seek to implement the multi-family requirements for MBTA communities under Housing Choice will receive preference.
To be eligible for TAP funding, the lead municipality must have a representative appointed to the Council.
At MAPC, we try our best to fund as many projects that are in accordance with the guidelines as possible through our technical assistance resources or state grant programs.
Although there is no specific deadline for the submission of project concepts, MAPC strongly encourages that proposals be submitted by January 31, 2022. Proposals submitted after that date will be considered if technical assistance funding is still available.