12/22/2005 BLUE RIBBON COMMITTEE Minutes

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6 these events,they can only occur if'they are connected. He said that the Town did not have a public wastewater treatment facility. As the Committee looked at those, they should say public or private wastewater.,facilities,he added. He said that limiting to public(wastewater treatment plant)litmus the benefits that these DCPC items were called for. Mr, tons said that he had no interest for the committee to be tied to an onsite septic system or wastewater treatment plant. He talked about establishing an agency to show wastewater officials Cape wide. He stressed that anything the committee could do to learn about it,to endorse the effort and be cognizant of what is out there, would be proactive. The Town Planner added that the committee should definitely send a representative to the Wastewater Maintenance Cotmnission,which represents Barnstable and Falmouth sewer departments. The hain-nan made a comment that in future agendas,there would be reports from the conmttee DCP . The Chairman asked if the connnittee would move forward, Mr. Storrs would lead the discussion on the Ring River Road Proposal, Transportation Issues Ring Road Proposal Mr. Storrs said that in 1988 there was a Rotary Bypass Conmttee, of which he was a part of, as well as other committee members. Tt was a way of bypassing the rotary. what carne out of that committee was a number of very strong and still very valid recommendations, Two of those recommendations had been put into place to this-point. one of them was the location of.Job's Fishing Road, extending to Route 151 to route 28. He said that north of Donna's Lane-a private road-was recreated as a public road as the landowners each gave i2 of thea land to the Town to create the Bane,making sure it was tied to Route 28, across from,lob's Fishing Road. He added that ft-om 1992-1993 the intersection from Dontna}s Lane and Route 28 and Job's Fishing Road were worthy of having signal lights. The committee's goal was not realized until 2004. .t that time,he said, the reconunendation was to continue finding legs surrounding the rotary. He compared this as similar to beet bypass surgery, which is if you pump all the blood from one vessel out of your heart, sooner or later your heart is going to have problems, and if you have a series of artery veins that go through your heart and around your hewt, the heart doesn't work as h aj-d, it isn't as much of a problem, He pointed out the Rotary, Mashpee Commons, the Mashpee Town Library, church, Fire and police and new senior center as well as high school on a map. So the two legs of the rotary bypass that were put into place was.Job's Fishing Road and thea Donna's Lane to Great Neck Road South, said Mr. Storrs. At that time thcre was recognition by Mr. Storrs' connmttee to continue Frank B. Hicks Drive, which was always bind of a quirk,he said. when the senior citizen center was going to be built,there was going to be added a lot of new tcaffic to that interseetiola, Working with the community, from a traffic standpoint, it would make a.lot of sense, said Mr. Storrs. There was a proposal to continue Frank E. Hies Drive to continue to Old Batustable Road, which would create another connection. That had controversy from some of the residences in the area. From the traffic standpoint that it made a lot of sense. The Ring Road Cottee about six or eight months ago, Mashpce Commons decided a lot of`the wergy fell off, in and around the rotas y. So we went to the Town and said let's reinvigorate the issue and look at it with fresh eyes. They called the now conrrr ittee the Ring Road Committee. He said that the various departments were members of the Ring Road tweeting, What the committee wanted to do was to create a Ring road system around the rotary that wasn't dependent upon Frank E. Hicks Drive extending north, said Mr. Storrs. At Job}s