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Town o Mash ee 16 Great Neck Ppad J1(orth Mashpee Planning Board NIashpee, Massachusetts 02649 Public 1 Notice 51 a' Pursuant to Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 40A, the Mashpee Planning Board will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, April 1, 1998 at 7:00 p.m.at the Mashpee Town Hall, 16 Great Neck Road North, to review four zoning amendment articles for action at the May 4, 1998 Annual Town Meeting. Summaries of the articles are as follows: This article would add a new Subsection 174-25 H.(8) to the "Table of Use Regulations" which would provide thatparking lots on lots separate from those on which there is a principal use requiring parking would be allowed, by special permit from the Planning Board, in commercial and industrial zones but are not allowed in residential zones. This article would add a new Subsection 174-25.B(15) to the "Table of Use Regulations" which would allow the development of for-profit golf driving ranges by special permit in the industrial zoning district located in the northwestern part of the town off Route 130, in addition to the commercial districts in which they are currently permitted. l In order to allow time for the Town to develop reasonable zoning regulations for new wireless communications facilities, this article would create a new Section 174-25.1 "Wireless Communications Facilities Moratorium", to be effective through the conclusion of the October 1998 Annual Town Meeting, which would prohibit the placement, construction or modification of, or the issuance of a permit for, commercial wireless communications facilities or personal wireless service facilities, as defined by 47 U.S.C. Section 332 (c) (7), including, but not limited to, towers and antennae, but excluding placement, construction or modification of facilities by a federally licensed amateur radio operator protected under M.G.L. Chapter 40A, Section 3. The proposed by-law does not J. apply to the placement, construction or modification of such wireless communications facilities, the antennae of which are proposed to be located upon an existing structure. This article would adopt regulations regarding g Adult Entertainment Uses, as provided for by Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 9A. It would amend Section 174-3 by inserting the definitions for "Adult Entertainment Uses", including "Adult Bookstore", "Adult Motion Picture Theater", "Adult Paraphernalia Store", "Adult Video Store" and "Establishment Which Displays Live Nudity for its Patrons" which are contained in M.G.L. Chapter 40A, Section 9A. It would amend Section 174-25 "Table of Use Regulations" by adding a new subsection 11) "Adult entertainment uses" to subsection E) "Principal retail business and consumer service establishments" and specifying that such uses shall be allowed only by special permit in C-1, C-1-0, C-1-SV, and C-2 zones and shall be set back 500 feet from the boundary of any residential zoning district, 1,000 feet from any school buildings, and 1,500 feet from any other existing adult entertainment use as defined by this zoning by-law with those distances measured by a straight line from the nearest property line of the premises of the proposed adult entertainment use to be located to the nearest boundary line of a residential zoning district, or the building line of any school, or the nearest property line of an existing adult entertainment use. The article would also create a new Section 174-45.2 "Adult entertainment uses" establishing rules i