4/27/2006 BLUE RIBBON COMMITTEE Minutes

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The Vice Chain-man said that Mr. tor•r's system would not change the problem of nitrogen and sewering. He said that Santuit woods had so many buildings fin ten thousand acre square foot lots, and that the phosphorous nitrates were being diverted into the pond. He added that they were looping at satellite plants. The Town Planner said tat there was no place to put all the sewer pl ailts and that they would have to work with the sewer commission. The vice Cbainnan said that he didn't like multi-stories,but cold see the logic of taking lots out of development. The Town Platmer said that density population in Mashpee was Santait Pond and that infrastructure costs would be the same, He said the transfer would not cost anything. Mr. Stoffs said that was not the point and that there was not one single answer to sewers. He said it would cost millions of dollars. That in the sewer district, people were going to have to pay$50-100 thousand dollars. The Town Planner said it was not a small cost. Mr. Storrs said it would be a drastic hit to the homeowner and that it may or may not work. He added that transfer would be imperfect, That the Land Bank would hold land, until a new buyer is found. The solution should be multi-faceted. He added that the infrast ractaie may have to go to three story buildings, That it would be the same cost building anything. That there would be economic disparity and that everybody in town should pay"'X" dollars in taxes* Ms. Kane said that it was a fair way that everyone should share in a perfect/imperfect world. Mr. Storys said that everybody benefits from ernbankinents and towns being improved. The Town Planner said that on the water, the bill is higher. Mr. Miller wondered if the frame of reference would extend beyond the Town of Mashpee. He wondered if the Town would be able to dilute the problem to different localities, expand beyond Mashpee. Mr. Storrs taped about a.regionalization Cape-wide waster water transit. Mr. Miller talked about centrali-M' g work places and working spaces, and thought the odds of it happening in two to three towns or over two towns. That it would be a Cape-wide debate. MY-, Storrs said that by doing nothing it fails and can perpetuate, forget about the quality of the rivers. He asked rhetorically: "What are`X')�{y,�� tz sewer neighborhoods` Certified growth areas, He added that it was a tough process and that to do nothing was a failure. The Nice Chairman said that the nitrogen problems were out of hand. Ills. Kane said that they had been talking about the issue for ten.years. Mr. Storrs said that Mashpee Commons was in the 300-350 ranges. And asked why not expand the wastewater treatment plant. The Town planner said it was a terrible place to get nidi of wastewater. Ms. Kane said that they had to look at it. The Town Planner said moving treated wastewater then sewage water line there was very few places in Town. He said it was a lot cheaper, and to put it back once it's been treated in the southeiii half of town. He suggested imovmg the wastewater to the militan-y base. The Vice Chairman said that the subject had been through tluve groups of studies and that they all said that there was too much nitrogen in the system.. He said that he didn't like the idea of going up(in housing units), but if going up, he could look at it with an open mind, that it was not a solution} the need was to sewer the Town.of Mashpee. The Town Planner said that there was not a lot of vacant land to transfer, adding every pefson who moves into Town. The vice Chalfflian said that it would take lots out of development? The Town Planncr said that on treatment plants# Now eabui.•y's Southport had between five and ter,lots to be developed in this manner.