1994-ECONOMIC DEV AND INDUSTRIAL COMMITTEE

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includes printing expenses and production of the book. Tom also urged the Selectmen to continue to fund the Economic Development Committee in order that their work continue in the area of grant funding to the town, new business development, and better communication in the town. GUESTS George Morton and Peter Sullivan came before the Committee to discuss their proposal for an Alcohol-free Golf and Recreation Park to be located on Route 28 in Mashpee. George Morton informed the Board that they had also met with the Mashpee Chamber of Commerce earlier in the day and that they will be attending the Chamber's next meeting on Tuesday night, March 15, 1994, to do a presentation with graphics and design plans of their project. Tom asked Mr. Sullivan and Mr. Morton to update the members of the Economic Development Committee on the recreation project and asked about a previous proposal where part of the land they're seeking to acquire would be donated to the Town of Mashpee. Mr. Sullivan informed the Committee that he had met with the Mashpee Planning Board last August or September and at that time had discussed the 41 acres known as Quashnet Woods, off of Route 28, that they were trying to acquire. They were told, at the Town Meeting, that the zoning for this piece of land had to be changed' and that they should wait until the May Town Meeting because people did not have enough information about their project. Mr. Sullivan had planned to donate approximately half of their parcel, about 22 acres, to the town of Mashpee for the consideration of supporting the zoning change. Mr Sullivan explained that the proposed park would include a professional PGA golf driving range, very esthetically pleasing miniature golf course, batting cages, softball cages; an indoor facility that would include computerized golf, day care, a discovery zone, and an indoor playground. In January when Mr. Sullivan and Mr. Morton went back to the Planning Board they were told that an overlay district proposal had to be changed for legal purposes, and that a zoning change was now being considered (a C-3). Tom Fudala suggested a new zoning change that would include 11 owners, including Sullivan and Morton. At next Planning Board meeting it was suggested that Sullivan and Morton find another piece of land in the town of Mashpee, zoned correctly, or at least zoned for industry rather than going after residential land. Mr. Sullivan and Mr. Morton told the Planning Board that they needed 25 acres and that they had met with virtually every realtor in town and that nothing was large enough for their purposes. The Planning Board was pursuing the idea of doing spot zoning where they would take the 41 acres and change the abutter's (Gavin) zoning. The Article was submitted to the Selectmen by the '� 2