1/15/2002 AFFORDABLE HOUSING Minutes

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ill Affordable Housing Committee Minutes of Meeting Held Tuesday, January 15, 2002 Mashpee Town Hall — Meeting Room 2 Present: L. Botsford, J. Cahalan, J. Regan, A. Weinstein, Z. Elizenberry, R. Terry, and Tom Fudala (Planning). Absent: L. Patrick, L. Williams, M. LeClair, and G. Marshall. Presenter: Paul Glynn (Attorney for Developer Joe Valle) Public Audience: Christian Valle; Arden Cadrin (Mashpee Resident) A quorum being present, Leila Botsford, Chairperson, called the meeting to order at 7:25 p.m. Leila advised the Committee that Developer Joe Valle could not be here tonight but his son, Christian Valle and Attorney Paul Glynn are here to discuss the possibility of building a 40B project, At this point, John Cahalane announced to the Chairperson that he had to excuse himself to attend another meeting. Tom Fudala preceded Paul Glynn'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 Facilities Needs 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. Tom said Town Counsel is looking into this. He said the Selectmen approved to go ahead to get legal advice, but took no formal action on the land swap itself, although 4 seemed supportive. Paul Glynn presented a proposed layout 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 said they wish to be an ally and thus go before the various groups to get support. Paul stated he has spoken to Town Counsel and today he spoke to Kopelman & Paige and in talking about the process she toll him it doesn't have to go to Town Meeting because it's Tax Title property. According to Paul, she said she thought if Selectmen approved that would be sufficient. He said of course if somebody thought there could be something corrupt then some taxpayer(s) could challenge it. Tom Fudala stated it would require Town Meeting approval for the Town to accept the Meetinghouse Road property. Paul further stated that the Zoning Board of Appeals approval is necessary to get the project approved.