1/12/2006 BLUE RIBBON COMMITTEE Minutes

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Land Use and Growth Management The Chairman wed the meeting over to Douglas Storrs, Mr, Storrs first stated that land use was easily addressed in a single meeting and any discussions needed a meeting with the Planning Board. Mr. Storrs said that every one of the Committee members had read the Mashpee Comprehensive Plan, and had seen the Town P 1 anner's rnap at the meeting on 10/5/06. Mr. Storrs also said that the goal was to lay out patterns of growth, types of growth and locations ofgrowth, He said that he wanted to look at how land use affects the Town. What would help to effective diversity growth, which was an important part of the plana smart growth program,he asked. The Chairman asked the Town Planner about a map that shows the open space and the growth centers. The Town Planner-said that there were five growth centers and two industrial growth areas. The Town Planner added that these areas were lashpee Conunons and from the Rotary to Deer-Crossing, and that the Town had used up presidential growth. Nor, Storrs said the Committee should look at the growth areas-should they be lamer or synall er?He asked rhetorically if the Town was'buying up open space,taking land out of housing. He said that the Conunittee needed to assess reality with an open space program, The Town Planner said that the entire population of the Town of Mashpee was 15,000. Buying open spaces would reduce the population,he added. The Chairman asked the Taws.Planner,who said there was a build out problem if, by build out, dict that mean there was no open space available? The Town Planner responded that the Chainnan should look at zoning, permits and what was going to be built. The Chairman said that it would not take into account people going to the Zoning Board. The Town Planner responded that the Town had gone through 11,000 parcels of land in town;he gage this figure as a theoretical number. The Chairman asked the Town Planner what the population of l ashpee was. The Town Planner responded that it was 15,000,year rounds residents, and 3,300 seasonal, according to the 1990 Census. He added that there were fewer seasonal homes versus year round homes. He asked,rhetorically, that in retrospect,why not anticipate that growth in housing units. Ms. Dane said that the Town was stressed by the growth that has happened. She added that what the community was dealing with was the result of growth that the Town had. ella E izenberry asked about affordable housing and how it would be implemented, That the workforce in Town was critically impacted. Mr. StoiTs said that the Committee should look for more variety of housing styles. And that 10-20 years ago, there would be a single family on a large lot. He added that the o xxittee members should look at a vatiety of housing, with provision for affordable table housing,with the appropriate required changes. Mr. Storrs said that the Town had to have a certain amount of economic development or taxes with build up every year, lam•. Storrs added that the Town was treating all uses of land as the same. He also said that he was interested in moving things forward and that there was too much commercially zoned land in the corrrrnunity. He said that if the Town took land as open space, it might be good to set aside land for aff`ordable housing, The Chairman asked that if one piece of land was bought as open space,would it be open space for the rest of the community members' lives? The Town Planner said that there was protection for this in the state constitution and he added that most of the land bought by co rrunity members was keeping land for use, The Town Planner said that one of the things the Town must do was to get additional help for the Planning