4/27/2006 BLUE RIBBON COMMITTEE Minutes

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M'. Storrs said that he was not a big fan of build out. But that if the population continues to grow, any change or attempt to provide for more affordable housing} socioeconomic issues haven't gone down that path strongly as a community. He said that the struggle to solve already built housing, using pirate's Core as a sample of a high concentration of development. He said that if he had a magic wart, every new growth and every new unit should not be put on a two- acre parcel. It would be economically advantageous,he said, to build a house in a cerfifred growth.center. The Town Planner interjected, saying that the Town did not have subdivisions with two- acre lots. That most of the land on route 130 and Quashnet load,hui.ld out was ah•eady permitted, That there were very few parcels left. According to the Town Plmmer,people had grand fathered lots and it was their light to have thein. The Town would need to create an incentive to put in certified growth centers. Mr. Storrs said that there should be created a Cape-wide land bank. That it would be ideal if there were enough incentive not to build a house next to"X"entity, in a land bank ceitifred growth center. Ms. Kane said that with this type of growth center, it would take away individual rights to live where they wanted. The Town planner said that there would be no legislation without a Business Round Table, Mr. Storrs said that many land bank programs statewide had the same issues—the _-the phenomenal cost to live in old farmhouses—that building a house would be an economic incentive. The Town Plainer said that if you want to do development in raral areas,you have to face farmers and the rights on the farms. He said that a 40B appears easier to get than not to start worrying about local zoning* He asked rhetorically `what incentive would be more than a 40B?" Mr. Storrs said it would use economic incentives as a solution that the landowner could also sell the rights to two units workbag both ends of the market. Mr. Miller said that it occurred to him that cormnonl.y used ceatlfied growth center would be giving up return to the developer. He said if a guy owns a main lot,he would have a heavy incentive to tape into account appreciation of an asset. N1r. Sterns said that right now, there is no incentive to create a new devclop .ent to zone into a growth center, and that he would build out the community if previously approved lots. The Vice Chair asked if there would be a plan to do a large project, How do we add to your project., Nix. Storrs said by adding a third or fourth stogy. The Town Planner added to the discussion.. He said that he could sell a lot and could get multipliers-incentives. He asked how many units would it talk for an incentive. He said that the r ummal in by-law is 2 1/2. The big question was,he said, what if that's-rat a big incentive and four.`units were not enough?How much incentive does it take?He said that the traffic disappears with sig units, Nitrogen units would not disappear, The total numbers in town regarding nitrogen would be greater. The'dice Chairman said he was not a person who would like to live in growth centers. But he added Haat if you put people in these growth areas, the people would not be making as many rips,but it there were four to-six units, there would still be more traffic. M', Theis added that people mould work in their neighborhood. Ms. Kane said that there,*rust be a convincing ofcitizens to live in three to four stones. The Town planner said tat he did not want to make it worse*That they would not be starting from scratch and that it was going to tape sewers. Ms. Dane spare and said that Pirate's Cove had their own sewer system. The Town Planner said there may be a new land system may end up with more land, more cost effective,