5/18/2006 BLUE RIBBON COMMITTEE Minutes

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4 Ms. Kane said that what the B R . . needed was to got the Department of Public Works involved as well as the Conservation Comnussion and that the Planning Board could make reconnnendations regarding storm water management. The Town Planner continued in his presentation, saying that the work erosion cane from QuIfliquisset Avenue across the bridge and that it was buried with sediment ficom the road and dirt hikes. He said that there were two zoning bylaws concemmg a process that would take a let of work on storm water management. There was a project regarding plants, called a switchback charnel that would take up the nitrogen through the root area.. He said that in 90%of storms there was less than on inch of rainfall, The other-storms wereJeaching, he added. another by-law was on specifying storm water treatment facilities. The Town Planner added that these were incremental changes only and that he would have more at the next 1 . . . . meeting. - The Chairman commented that the Planning Board had put a let of information into its' pxnou,.a .; rl r thy._ qw ;Engirpppr The Town Planner said that one of the issues coming up focused on erosion. Not just the land area,he said,but road layouts, he added that the Town itself hadn't been doing it. He said to look for casements on adjacent propertie's and that it will an issue on road layout that is constricted. Land Management and Usage --_-Douglas Storrs Thea • "ked if there were any residual questions, since the last two meeting regarded land management and usage. The Nice Chair replied that during the previous meeting of. pnd 26, there had been very active conversations on growth centers and that there was no conversation of whether it was a t viable process or not. Mr. Storrs said that they hadn't arrived at a perfect sAtion and that the `devil was in the details"' and not sure there was a consensus, He added that growth centers would need a level playing field, that there was tremendous incentives for growth to occur, that the Cape Cod Commission needed to revise how it reviews and regulates growth. He added that buildings in a growth center would be required to be two stories, with residents. He said,there had:been-no.review' -ofthese ty'pes of buildings. fir. Storrs said it was too late, there was already build out and that this constrains thug about growth centers and village growth centers. He said that young people were not able to afford it. He added that people could move to large` homes and that under most zoning ordinances smaller bicrements were not allowed. Ms. Gurney said that a lot of people don't want any more growth, they want it to be,lie fifty years age--they either go uta or go out. _ The vice Chair said he was looking at three stogies, saving three hundred lots from being built,which would have taken three hundred lots out of the nitrogen equation, Mr. Storrs talked about 11 ashpee Commons, which had studios and one bedroom. He :.mak d rhetorically why there;were two..P 1 space.s. He said these were the little things to chirp away at and to have a concept of growth centers, He said he felt very positive about the Comprehensive Plan. Mr. Zeis sari that it was beyond discussion of nitrates and nitrogen. That Mashpee had to havib a facility where working people could lure. The Chairman said that service industries were more critical and that the population of the Town was aging, The Town Planner spoke and .said that currt'Mashpee growth centers made sense. TIle watersheds were overloaded with nitrogen. In the growth centers,, he said, people would be looking at an increasing non-residential tax base, reduced standards and lower levels of service. He added that some growth centers made no sense, others in town, dial.