What is the CPF?

FAQs and Facts

What the Fund can do

Volunteer/Contribute!

Vote Yes on CPF

What the CPF can do for Red Hook

At NO ADDITIONAL COST TO TAXPAYERS, the Community Preservation Fund will help:

• Hold down school taxes

• Hold down town taxes

• Protect our water

• Reduce the loss of farms

• Enhance property values

• Maintain the green belts that surround our villages and hamlets

• Save our natural beauty

• Preserve our wildlife

Here Today...

Gone Tomorrow?

News/Updates

Red Hook voters OK new tax Daily Freeman

Preservation tax squeaks by Poughkeepsie Journal

Confused? Find out more about how CPF works

Red Hook contains some of the best farm soils in the Hudson Valley.

NY’s rising taxes and threatened water safety are directly linked to rapid growth.

CPF WINS BY A NOSE! Red Hook residents defeat last minute distortion campaign by local real estate interests; Reports increase of "no" voters changing their minds after getting the facts

Why Smart Growth?

Farms in Danger

Tools for Smart Growth

Preserve Red Hook

Sponsored by the Red Hook Community Preservation Alliance      

Preserve Red Hook: Support the Red Hook Community Preservation Fund in Red Hook, Dutchess County, New York. Smart Growth and the Community Preservation Fund (CPF) and the PDR are key property tax relief, housing, agricultural land preservation tools.