2/22/2017 ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS Minutes

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MASHPEE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS MEETING MINUTES FEBRUARY 22, 2017 There is one affordable unit in this building and it is already reserved and the individual is waiting for the occupancy. Building 40 which is closest to Mashpee Commons is approximately another two months before finished. This building has two affordable units, and both are reserved; and those individuals are waiting for the building to be completed. The last time Tom met with the Board they focused their attention on finishing up the corner of Benefit and Market Streets. The next building they anticipated to arrive was Building 43, and they also spoke about Building 46, which is located on the corner of Jobs Fishing and Market St(s). Tom said he since re-evaluated that strategy and pushed Building 46 to get the presence of Jobs Fishing Road. Rather than doing Building 43 at the same time, the decision was made to focus on finishing one side of Market St. It was a logistical conversation that there will be tenants living in this building, and they don't want to wait and fill in the missing two at some point with people living on either side. He said he just submitted the plan review application for Building 46 yesterday, and it will be before the plan review committee on March 7, 2017. He already met with the Fire Department, and will be ready for permitting. Building 44 will come later this year, and he will focus on these buildings at the end of this year or the beginning of next year. There are two more individuals on the waiting list for affordable units that have not been assigned and they have reserved units for them. There are three units in Building 44 and 46, and that building will be assigned to two individuals on the waiting list; if they choose to take one of those units. Otherwise they open the process to solicit more applications to individuals seeking affordable units. Building 46 is similar to the other buildings in Mashpee Commons, which is ground floor commercial space and two floors of apartments. Building 44 is completely residential, which is two floors of apartments and no commercial space. The 40B Comprehensive Permit encompasses all 3 82 units. They broke down the first sub - phase into eight buildings, and six out of the eight buildings have commercial space on the ground floor. Building 44 and 45 are the two buildings that do not have commercial space, and are designed as residential only. The parking for the residential units has to be allocated in the lots behind, and the parking for the commercial space has to be allocated for on -street basis only. There is no assigned parking. Mashpee Commons structures their leases, and does not allow tenants to park in the on -street spaces unless the stores are closed. Mashpee Commons has not been able to review the logistics of the parking, but has demonstrated to the Board that they can allocate the required number of spaces in the lots and on the streets. There's four separate categories for commercial to allocate parking, and until you assign an actual use to a space, you have to calculate one fourth of the square footage of each one of the categories. For example; Building 41 has four commercial spaces, two have assigned leases, one office and one retail tenant. When they start updating their parking calculations for the Board as they advance, they will assign actual uses for those spaces as opposed to the one forth allocation. For retail establishments its three per thousand, and for a business office use its six; it's very detailed, 2