AMHERST — An overhaul of the area around the War Memorial Pool, including rebuilding the aging pool house and removing deteriorating basketball courts, along with significant financial support for affordable housing projects throughout Amherst are among $2.44 million in requests the Community Preservation Act Committee is beginning to review.

The largest of 13 requests, seven of which come from town officials, are $750,000 for revitalizing the property surrounding the town’s oldest swimming pool, located off Triangle Street near Amherst Regional High School; and $775,000 combined for the Amherst Municipal Housing Trust and a town contribution for production of affordable housing, including for projects planned or discussed at the the former VFW on Main Street, as well as sites on Strong Street and at the former Hickory Ridge Golf Course on West Pomeroy Lane.

Assistant Town Manager David Ziomek told the Recreation Commission at a meeting earlier this month that the money for renovating the property near the downtown pool would serve as a match for applying for both a Parkland Acquisitions and Renovations for Communities state grant and a Land and Water Conservation Fund federal grant by next July.

“In all likelihood, this is probably a $1.5 million to $2 million project when it’s all said and done,” Ziomek said.

Unlike the pool, which reopened in 2012 following an extensive renovation, the 1950s-era pool house is in rough shape. “The pool house really needs to come down ASAP,” Ziomek said.

It’s possible that a new pool house, with public bathrooms that would be open during sports games at the high school, would be rebuilt closer to Mattoon Street, Ziomek said. The project would also include new basketball courts, a new playground to replace one with aging structures, and a new walkway and seating areas.

The Amherst Municipal Affordable Housing Trust is asking for $500,000 for future projects, while the town is asking for $275,000 for predevelopment work, such as surveys, wetlands delineation and engineering.

“The trust continuously seeks opportunities to ensure a pipeline of housing initiatives that will increase affordable rental or homeownership opportunities in Amherst,” Carol Lewis, its co-chair, wrote in the application.

Lewis told the CPA Committee that the University of Massachusetts’ Donahue Institute estimates that 1,500 rental units with rents at less than $1,000 a month are needed in Hampshire County to meet housing needs.

There are a variety of other requests for CPA money, with several focused on sports activities. “This is a pretty robust slate of recreation projects,” Ziomek said.

They include $100,000 for the construction of new pickleball courts at Kiwanis Park on Stanley Street, which supplements money previously appropriated; $60,000 for fixing cracks in the tennis courts at Mill River Recreation Area on Montague Road; and $85,000 for rehabilitating the softball fields at Community Field, next to the high school, at Kiwanis Park and at Groff Park on Mill Lane.

The smallest request is $20,000, which would be used to hire consultants for the East Amherst local historic district study committee, where 49 historic properties could be subject to the same protection as the two existing local historic districts.

“It is the original part of Amherst. It was called East Hadley originally,” said Nancy Ratner, who chairs the Local Historic District Commission. Ratner said the area is enormously important, with many pre-Civil War buildings.

The other applications include:

■$177,911 for roof repairs and other improvements at the Amherst Zion Church in North Amherst center, in advance of the building’s bicentennial in 2026.

■$150,000 for restoration of the North and South Amherst town cemeteries, with repairs being made to 125 headstones and a small number of monument stones.

■$100,000 for trail restoration and enhancement on town land.

■$98,000 for Michael and Kimberley Como to place their home, located off Northampton Road at the edge of the Westside Historic District, on a new foundation.

■$74,350 for the Amherst Historical Society to complete an accessibility and existing conditions study at the Strong House Museum on Amity Street.

■$46,875 for District One Neighborhood Association’s history trail project along the Mill River, extending from the North Amherst Library to Cushman center.