About Us
We are the Carlisle Alliance for Preservation (CAP), a group of residents who wish to encourage
our Planning Board (PB) and Select Board (SB) to offer you, the voter, more than one reasonable alternative to re-zone Carlisle for multi-family dense housing mandated by the state’s MBTA Communities law.
CAP members represent many neighborhoods of Carlisle, including those red-lined for re-
zoning, and those not. We are parents with children in Carlisle’s schools, business owners,
retired couples, attorneys, former IT engineers, civil engineers, marketing managers, publishing executives, software engineers, medical doctors, and real estate experts. We bring our broad business experience,
skill sets, and knowledge of our town to offer better plans to satisfy the state’s mandate while
minimizing the negative impacts on neighborhoods and abutters.
Our Goals
Our Goals are three:
1) Inform the Carlisle voters on the serious negative effects ensuing from the current MFCC re-zoning plan;
2) Provide Carlisle homeowners with concrete information prior to the upcoming Carlisle town meetings in May and November 2025;
3) Suggest alternative compliance plans to the Planning Board to minimize impact on established Carlisle neighborhoods.
We believe that our fellow homeowners should have the final say
in how the town fulfills the MBTA Communities’ mandate for multi-family housing – not developers or state agencies who disregard Carlisle’s
sole dependence on private wells and septic systems.
Help us protect the Carlisle you know and love.