"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" asked Alice in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to." answered the Cheshire Cat.

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"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to
go from here?" asked Alice in Lewis Carroll's
Alice in Wonderland. "That depends a good deal
on where you want to get to."answered the
Cheshire Cat.
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SUMMARY - Master Plan 7 Chapters

• Community Facilities and Services (completed)
• Coordinated government leadership with common
  goals and plans acceptable to the people of the
  town, 5yr capital plan, performance measures,
  citizen access and participation.
• Housing (in draft stage)
• Types of housing needed, locations, controls,
  low income regs.
• Transportation (data gathering by CMRPC)
• Isolated citizens, need for public
  transportation, alternatives
• Economic Development
• How do we pay for it all. Residential 92
  Business 4, Jobs
• Open Space and Recreation (In review)
• What to protect and how to protect. How can we
  enjoy North Brookfield.
• Land Use and Zoning (data collection)
• What control measures are effective for our
  desires. Protect vs. Develop
• Implementation Plan (Implementation underway)
• How do we make it all happen? People,
  Structure, Priorities, Involvement
• Change is inevitable We want to be in front of
  change guiding and influencing rather than in
  back of change reacting and adapting.

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Common Capital Asset Acquisition Methods
Salami Method
Place in Heaven
End of the World
Guilt Provocation
Blood on your Hands
Crying Crisis
CBB and CBVB
I never ask for Anything
Devil made me do it
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Capital Improvement Plan Bylaw
1. Inventory of existing capital assets
3. Requests for capital assets Cost Source of
funds - Importance
2. Sources of funds for capital assets Cash,
bonds, debt, etc
4. Capital Improvement Program 5 7 person CIP
team Priority Match of Requests to Funds Capital
Plan 1 5 year
Capital Improvement Plan Objectives Capital
improvement plans help a community match the
costs of future capital improvements, for such
things as equipment, buildings, roads, sewers,
and public water systems, to anticipated
revenues. A capital improvement plan can provide
a vital link to other plans and insure that a
communitys spending priorities match the
communitys vision.
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Prioritization of Capital Needs Successful
capital planning facilitates postponing some
capital expenditures in favor of others as part
of the planning process. In March 2005, JCPC
voted unanimously to adopt the following
guidelines for prioritizing capital projects. The
guidelines themselves are not necessarily listed
in priority order Imminent threat to health
and safety of citizens, employees or property
(police cruisers and radios, SCBA self contained
breathing apparatus) Maintenance and
improvement of capital assets (major repairs of
buildings, replacement of vehicles and
equipment, park and play area renovations)
Requirement of state or federal law (asbestos
cleanup program mandated by federal
law in 1986, removal of gas tanks, etc)
Improvement of the infrastructure (streets and
sidewalks, water and sewer programs)
Improvement/maintenance of productivity
(equipment replacement, computer hardware /
software) Improvement of an overburdened
situation (Town Hall renovations, cemetery
expansion program) Newly identified need
(recreation fields) and Priority assigned by
Department (Very High, High, Medium, Low).
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Capital Improvement Plan Benefits
Facilitates coordination between capital
needs and the operating budgets.
Enhances the community's credit rating, control
of its tax rate, and avoids sudden
changes in its debt service requirements.
Identifies the most economical means of financing
capital projects. Increases opportunities for
obtaining federal and state aid. Relates
public facilities to other public and private
development and redevelopment policies
and plans. Focuses attention on community
objectives and fiscal capacity. Keeps the
public informed about future needs and
projects. Coordinates the activities of
neighboring and overlapping units of
local government to reduce duplication.
Encourages careful project planning and design to
avoid costly mistakes and help a
community reach desired goals.
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Economic Development Chapter

• How do we take some of the tax burden off
  residential property?
• How do we grow in-town jobs?

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Small town atmosphere, Low crime rate and Open
space are the most desirable and determine the
fundamental description of what is to be
protected in the master plan. How to protect? Can
protection be affordable? What to include in
Plan?
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Clearly the lack of retail stores is the
strongest dislike followed by a lack of
employment. Schools appear too high on the
responses compared to typical surveys. Which
can be changed? How? Which cannot be changed?
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Economic Development Part V Business/Industry
Advantages Disadvantages

• Benefits of encouraging Business and Industry
• More tax revenue to help ease residential tax
  burden 390
• More in-town jobs 384
• More Tax revenue to help improve town services -
  320

• Disadvantages of encouraging Business and
  Industry
• More Truck Traffic 318
• More Automobile traffic 315
• Loss of open space 288

Tough decisions ahead in trying to balance the
need for a broader tax base from the inclusion of
business and industry and the affordable limits
of residential Taxes. How do we get more jobs in
town? Are we willing to use some of our open
space for business and industry? How much ?
Where?
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Economic Development Part III Zoning
Implications
Yes
Yes
No
No
A Job In NB?
Tax base depends heavily on homes 92(use to be
87) and very little on business 4. This trend
will drive home property taxes and apartment
rents higher due to a dependence on residential
property. Should business and industry be
promoted? How do we protect the open space
desires of the residents?
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Economic Development Part IV Zoning Changes to
encourage Business/Industry
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Economic Development Part I Business
1 4 3 5 2
BUSINESS TYPE Main Street Downtown E. Brookfield RD. Gilbert St Rt 67 North Rt 148 North South Main Rt 148 South Rt 67 TOTAL BY BUSINESS TYPE
Restaurants 218 81 98 66 105 568
Professional Services 204 95 94 83 87 563
Hardware/Home Improve 274 54 57 38 53 476
Small scale Retail 211 53 47 38 47 396
Services 217 47 47 42 39 392
Home Based Business 78 75 79 80 72 384
Home Based Agricultural Business 44 63 91 66 89 353
Fast Food 71 42 35 28 53 229
Clothing Stores 87 26 25 18 30 186
Large Scale Retail 17 38 41 21 60 177
TOTALS BY LOCATION 1421 574 614 480 635  
Key Question is where should business be
located. How do we protect open space? Presently
zoning allows home building within a business
zone. Does this impact either the business or the
home? Should the zoning by changed to keep homes
and businesses in separate zones?
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Economic Development Part II Industry
4 1 2 3 1
INDUSTRY TYPE Main Street Downtown E. Brookfield RD. Gilbert St Rt 67 North Rt 148 North South Main Rt 148 South Rt 67 TOTAL BY INDUSTRY TYPE
Light Manufacturing 52 156 97 76 109 490
Research Development 49 105 80 34 83 351
Medical Research 45 74 63 44 80 306
Office Parks 43 72 63 50 73 301
Bio-technology 35 72 64 44 74 289
Warehousing Storage 18 48 50 37 69 222
Defense Industries 19 36 40 28 56 179
Heavy Manufacturing 19 39 39 31 48 176
Freight Shipping 20 37 39 25 51 172
TOTALS BY LOCATION 300 639 535 369 643
A significant number of people left this question
blank. Is there a desire to not have industry
locate in North Brookfield? Where should Industry
locate? How do we protect open space?
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Economic Development Base
What do the businesses need from us ? (rules,
zoning, services, land, support, etc)
What do we Need for businesses?
What do we Have for businesses?
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BUSINESS ( 148/67 north) Restaurants, Prof.
Serv. INDUSTRIAL Lt. Mfg., RD

• PRIORITIES
• Business
• Down Town
• Rt 67 south
• Industrial
• EB Road Rt 67 south
• 148 67 north

BUSINESS (Down Town) Restaurants, Prof.
Serv., Small Retail, Hardware, Services No
Industrial
BUSINESS (EB Road) Restaurants, Prof.
Services INDUSTRIAL Lt. Mfg., RD, Office
Park, Biotech, Medical Research
BUSINESS (67 south) Restaurants, Prof.
Serv. INDUSTRIAL Lt. Mfg., RD, Office
Pk, Biotech, Med. Research
BUSINESS (148 south) Restaurants, Prof.
Serv. INDUSTRIAL Lt. Mfg.
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ISSUES Source support for distribution area
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Issues Distribution, capacity, business waste
handling.
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North Brookfield South (Water Blue) (Sewer
Orange) (note Downtown sewer not drawn)
East Brookfield Road, 148 67 south to West
Brookfield are first priority locations for
industrial development as defined on earlier
zoning map. Rt. 67 south is second priority for
business development after Downtown which is
first priority. NOTE Limitations of sewer
(orange) and water (blue) services.
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North Brookfield North (Water Blue) (Sewer
Orange) (note Downtown sewer not drawn)
Rt. 67 and 148 north are second priority for
industrial development applications. First
priority are Rt 148 and 67 south along with East
Brookfield Road. NOTE Limitations of sewer
(orange) and water (blue) services.
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Economic Development Action Plan

• Existing Business
• Services (WS)
• Assistance
• Support
• Rules
• Growth help
• Other

• New Business
• Location
• Zoning changes
• Services (WS)
• Recruitment
• Assistance
• Other

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(Draft 11/14/2006) Economic Development -
Goal Establish an economic development growth
plan for North Brookfield based businesses,
agriculture and home based business that will
balance residents preferences for selective
commercial/business growth with the need to
expand the tax base beyond a 92 dependence on
residential property taxes. Economic Development
- Objectives 1. Develop plans and methods to
grow North Brookfields business and
commercial sectors with an ultimate aim of
increasing the economic sectors contribution to
the Towns tax base by 5 over the course of the
next decade. 2. Create an Economic Development
Commission that will serve as an advocate for
economic development in North Brookfield. The
charge for this entity will be to prepare,
coordinate and implement an overall comprehensive
economic development program on behalf of the
Town, including assisting existing businesses and
encouraging new businesses. 3. Review the
provisions of the Zoning Bylaw that regulate
economic development and revise as necessary,
including the adoption of site plan design
standards that will ensure that new economic
development is in keeping with North
Brookfields small town New England
character. 4. Expand those commercial and
industrial zoning district having potential for
expansion (adjacent vacant land free of
environmental constraints, good highway access,
and access to the water and sewer
infrastructure). 5. Identify an area of Town
that is suitable for new business development
according to the desires expressed by citizens in
the Master Plan citizen survey. 6. Plan for
new economic development in a comprehensive
manner that discourages the use of spot zoning
for individual businesses.
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If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you
dont wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes.

• Senegalese Proverb

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MAP EXPLANATION Information appearing within
the 5 boxes on the map are priorities expressed
by citizens of North Brookfield in a community
survey conducted in 2006. Survey had 642
completed returns equaling a 35 response rate
from the community. The identified priorities
are to locate Businesses in the Downtown and
Route 67 South areas and Industrial applications
in the East Brookfield Road and 148/67 north
areas. FIVE POTENTIAL BUSINESS/INDUSTRIAL
LOCATIONS (Clockwise) North side (rt. 148/67)
For this location the survey identified
Restaurants and Professional Services as
desirable businesses and Light manufacturing and
Research Development as desirable industrial
applications. Downtown Center For this location
the survey identified Restaurants, Professional
Services, Small Retail stores, Hardware stores
and services (ie dry cleaning) as desirable
businesses, Industrial applications were not
identified as a priority for the downtown
area. East Brookfield Road For this location
Restaurants and Professional Services were
identified as desirable business applications.
Light Manufacturing, Research Development,
Biotechnology and Medical Research were
identified as desirable industrial
applications. Route 148 South For this location
Restaurants and Professional Services were
identified as desirable business applications.
Light Manufacturing was identified as a desirable
industrial application. Route 67 South For this
location Restaurants and Professional Services
were identified as desirable business
applications. Light Manufacturing, Research
Development, Office Parks, Biotechnology and
Medical Research were identified as desirable
industrial applications.