10/11/2017 ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS Minutes

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MASHPEE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS MEETING MINUTES OCTOBER 11, 2017 In addition to the residential units, there are commercial spaces in each of the three buildings. Building 41 has four commercial spaces, and all four of those spaces are leased. The tenants are Cape Cod Coffee, the Northbridge Facility business office, an attorney's office, and a real estate office. Building 42 has a commercial space called "Riddle", which is the escape room facility. Building 40 has a commercial space that is ear-marked to be a restaurant. There is no tenant yet, so it is left empty on the inside until they know the layout for the utilities. Mr. Feronti said he advanced the landscape plan for the three buildings. Part of the final approval was to submit landscape plans. The landscape plan was submitted for all Phase IA but because there are three of the eight buildings finished he advanced this plan in a more finite detail and plantings were installed over the last couple of weeks. Building 41 was finished,Building 42 was finished in March, and Building 40 was finished in May. At the time the plan was to continue off the west side of the street with Building 44 and 46. Building 44 has six units in it,two of which are dedicated affordable..Building 46 also has six units, one of which is affordable. The pricing came back on the buildings and it wasn't feasible to advance those buildings at this time. Part of the issue that they ran into is with the 40B process. The budget has to be establish for financing on day-1, and since construction costs have changed drastically over the past three and half years, it's been a challenge.Mr. Feronti said he is reengaging his process to look at redesign,delivery methods, and how to get costs down. He said they have committed to rebuilding Building 44, and are not committing to building both buildings at this time. Mr. Feronti said they look at whether or not it makes sense to start reallocating units to that building or to have more units in the footprint, and to start amortizing some of the costs over more units. Timewise he does not know when construction will start. They are in the design process right now. Mr. Feronti said they are taking a step back and relooking at each unit, including the number of bedrooms and the design. There will be nothing started this fall,but maybe next spring. There are nine individuals that have gone through the first step of affordability review. None of these individuals have gone through the eligibility process with SEB the Monitoring Agent. These individuals will not go through this process until they have a unit that is available. The first sub-phase of the 40B was advanced and permitted for 52 units with 13 affordable. There are five complete right now that are occupied. So if they built out the other five buildings there will be another eight affordable units. The reason these individuals don't go through a more thorough eligibility process is because they may qualify today, and by the time the unit is available they might not be qualified. So they wait until there are units ready for them to go through the process. Mr. Furbush asked how many rentals there are out of the 13 affordable units. Mr. Feronti said they are all rentals in Phase IA. He said in dealing with the Town Planner all the units that they are building in Phase 1 A are actually counted towards the Town's 10% quota. 2