4/27/2006 BLUE RIBBON COMMITTEE Minutes

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Town of Mash-pee Blue Ribbon Comprehensive 'ommi"ttee MIinutes of Meeting AprH 27,2006 The Town of Mashpee Blue Ribbon Committee was called to order in Mashpee Town TIA 16 Great'Ne&Road'Norffi,_1\4ashpee,'Massadhusetts at 7:00 p.m.on Thursday, Apr l 27, 2006. The Vice Chairman, Chuckie Green,presided. Blue-Ribbon-Committee Members p-resent: Chuckie green,Vice Chair;Beverly Kane; John Miller, Douglas Storrs, Clerk and Ted Thus. Absent this evening were Chairman Ikon Myers;Zell a Flizenbe y, Lee Gurney and Glenn Santos. Also present: F. Thomas Fudala-,Town Planner and Ed Baker, a Mashpee citizen. A quorum being present,the Chairman c Red the meeting to order. Approval of Minutes Minutes were approved for meetings held on March 9, 2006 and March 23,2006. Review/approval of minutes from the meeting on April 6, 2006 were withheld,until the May 4, 2006 meeting, pending approval. Communications Public Comments Where were no communications or public comments at this time. Old Business Reports from each Board/Commission regarding DCPC recommendations Beverly Kane, Chair of the planning Board,passu out to members of the Blue Ribbon Committee a document regarding water resource recommendations and actions that the Board was working on, Under the category: Current Status, Ms. Lane had used red ink for items that had to be completed sooner than other items,prioritized for the Thursday, May 25,2006, BRCC meeting. One example of these D pC actions was a presentation assigned.to Charles Rowley,the Tow.Engineer,regarding a site inspection and storm grater runoff in Mashpee and Santuit Rivers. There were several other DCPC presentations prioritized to take place These included zoning by-laws on storm water management; a water quality report; and one on open space residential development. Ms. Kane also said that the Board would be using the Town of Franklin Best Development practices Guide Book for Mashpee or g by-laws,who's web page is ._ John Hiller, an associate hoard.member of'the Conservation Commission, said that Steve olb o,the Conservation Agent,was looking at items presented by.tach Fitzsimmons, a Board member of the Conservation Commission, in his BRCC presentation several weeks ago. He was citing conservatiosts taking interest in some town in and outside of Massachusetts that have developed conservation based rules and regulations which may have by-laws established such as a storm drain committee and water tun-off committee, where there were subsets of other committees in the town of Mashpee. Mr. Miller also spoke about nitrogen pollutants distributed by air as a concern.The Nice Chatrrnan, Chuckie Green, asked ghat the Town could do about airborne nitx*ogen pollutants and XIX. Miller replied that it was an excellent question,he said that some of these pollutants could be coming out of state, even New York and coming in the direction of Cape Cod and that he didn't have an answer for how to prevent it.