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Attention Holyoke residents, the current parking ban will conclude on Monday, February 17, 2025, at 6am. Please be advised that starting at 8:00am on Monday, February 17, 2025, a reverse parking ban will be enforced, prohibiting parking on the EVEN side of the street and on cul-de-sacs until further notice. Thank you for your cooperation.

Atención residentes de Holyoke, la actual prohibición de estacionamiento concluirá el lunes 17 de febrero de 2025, a las 6am. Les informamos que a partir de las 8am del 17 de febrero, comenzará una prohibición de estacionamiento inversa, prohibiendo estacionarse en el lado PAR de la calle y en las calles sin salida hasta nuevo aviso. Gracias por su cooperación.

Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness Grant Program

The Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness grant program (MVP) provides support for cities and towns in Massachusetts to begin the process of planning for climate change resiliency and implementing priority projects. The state awards communities with funding to complete vulnerability assessments and develop action-oriented resiliency plans. Communities who complete the MVP program become certified as an MVP community and are eligible for MVP Action grant funding and other opportunities.

Holyoke’s MVP Plan can be viewed here: 2018 Holyoke MVP Report

Past MVP Projects

Impervious Surface Mapping for Resilience and Implementation (2020)

The goal of this project was to develop an actionable, scalable, and data-driven impervious surface reduction plan to improve municipal resiliency. Phases of work included development of a mitigation plan with impervious surface reduction targets and recommendations for their implementation. The final plan can be viewed and downloaded here: Holyoke Impervious Surfaces Mitigation Plan

The project also included the development of a planimetric data layer map showing impervious surface cover of different types across all of Holyoke. The final map produced by Sanborn can be downloaded here: Holyoke Citywide Impervious Surfaces 2020

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