12/4/2001 AFFORDABLE HOUSING Minutes

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Affordable Housing Committee Informal Notes of Meeting Held Tuesday, December 4, 2001 Mashpee Town Hall --- Meeting Room 1 Present: L. Botsford, J. Cahalane, L. Patrick, J. Regan, L. Williams, and Tom Fudala (Planning). Absent: A. Weinstein, Z. Elizenberry, M. LeClair, R. Terry, and G. Marshall. Presenters: Joseph Valle (Developer), and Paul Glynn (Attorney for Joe Valle) Public Audience: Christian Valle; Alan Samry (Mashpee Enterprise) At 7:30 p.m. Leila Botsford, Chairperson, announced to those in attendance that unfortunately a quorum of the Committee was not present. She indicated, however, that those present could hold an informal session and proceeded to introduce Joe Valle, developer. Tom Fudala preceded. Joe Valle's presentation by offering some introductory remarks. He informed the group that he had preliminary discussions with Joe Valle, as well as with the school building committee, which led to the suggested proposal of a land trade with the town whereby Joe Valle would give the Town the Meetinghouse Road property in exchange for a piece of Town -owned property located behind South Cape Resort. John Cahalan requested that the Committee withhold any vote on this issue until the Selectmen are informed. He stated the Selectmen have not been advised of any of this to date. Joe Valle then presented to the Committee his proposal for building 18 single-family homes on the site behind South Cape Resort. Under the proposed plan, 6 of the homes would be designated Affordable Housing under Chapter 40B. The breakdown: • 2 -Lots will be given by developer to Habitat for Humanity to develop low-cost houses. • 4 -Homes will be built by developer and sold as Affordable Housing homes. Paul Glynn then addressed the group detailing the steps leading to the proposed land trade. He emphasized that although the focus thus far has been designing plans on the South Cape Resort alternative site they are willing to work with the Town to reach a workable solution. He further advised that Joe Valle purchased the Meetinghouse Road property last week and if agreement on alternative site not reached with the Town, then they will move forward with their original Chapter 40B plan and build 16 homes on the Meetinghouse Road site -4 of these homes will be Affordable Housing. Following discussion, John Cahalan again reminded everyone that any proposal for town land trade has to be approved by the Board of Selectmen and it also requires Town Meeting approval. Conclusion: Basically the issue before this Committee is: Is it advantageous for the Town to trade the land?