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f 1 PIANNING BOARD MINUTES : May 2. 1984 MEMBERS PRESENT: Earle Marsters, Herold Collins * Richard Dubin Richardson Jonas, Michele Stone CONSULTING ENGINEER Charles L. Rowley TIME: -8:0 p.m. The minutes were approved and adopted for April 18, 1984 except for the section which stated lir. 1arsters "steppe out due to conflict of W nterest" s it was misleading and should be amended to mead Mr. learsters abstained , The meeting opened with the first of four public hearings for the night, The first hearing regarded the abandoning of Job's Fishing Rd. Nor. Marsters read the public hearing notice as advertised. As the article was submitted by Fields Point Manufacturing ing Co. , he called on Mr. Arnold chase to speak. Mr. Chase said they had discussed the issue at previous meeting and the basic idea is that the present road heads into the woods and 90% the road is hand to distinguish. He said he 's asking the Town to abandon it because he wants to expand the shopping center and the present road conflicts with the expansion. They're trying to develop the center as town center and they meed to comply with parkin regulatic s, so they approached the town to see if the build the road further, will the town. consider transferring the rights onto land further down. He went n to say it was apparent that people in town were interested in a con- nector from Rte 151 to Rte 28. He said after talking to the Town they agreed to expand the size of the road and would include a bikes. . Mr. fir ers asked if there were any questions . Joseph Murphy, Executive Secretary for the Town of Mashpee , spoke on behalf of the Board of, Selectmen. He said they were looking at it for several reasons : l it would provide a bye-pass of the rotary from Rte 28 to Rte 151, and would egress on Rte 151 by the fire station and mean less congestion; 2 the town would get a bike path and that's ghat the Selectmen and conservation wants ; the town adopted the village concept pland and the new road falls within this context, He said the change meets all concerns of legal counsel and the town engineer and is in the best .interest of the town, Mr. Marsters stated. the Planning Board also supported the article as the own would get a by-opass at no cost to the t own. There were no further questions so Mr. Irters went on to the next public hearing for the companion article which would change the zoning in the area, He read the advertisement as it appeared in the newspaper. He said it was necessary to continue the commercial zoneat-.the shopping r