2/24/1998 MASHPEE COMMONS ADVISORY COMMITTEE Minutes

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spaces located to the rear of the property, serried by an alley or lane. Mr. Storrs provided a visual for "Mixed use Neighborhood, Mashpee Commons, Mashpee,, M " with reference to the Job' s Fishing Toad' area. He indicated a standard model Courtyard-Sixteen l unit apartment building located beside a smaller single story retail building or a single family building. He also indicated proposed areas for retail first floor, office second floor buildings, as well as other examples of New England architecture. He explained the architecture remains the same, while the uses within the buildings can change. Selectman Marsters asked if there would be architectural restrictions imposed upon Mashpee Commons Ltd. Partnership in order to insure the Town that construction will be developed as proposed. Mr. Storrs stated there will be architectural guidelines (some of which they impose upon themselves for Mashpee Commons building) which dictate window pattern, store front openings, materials, trim, slope of the roof, etc. There is also a site code which dictates location of the building on the lot. . Mr. Storrs stated if anyone other than Mashpee Commons Ltd.. Partnership shou ,d wish to buy and participate in the project, they too would be held to said restrictions by deed covenant in order to maintain the New England architecture. Mr. Storrs further stated any building would have to undergo the Mashpee Commons Architectural. Design-Review criteria, as well as the Town Design-Review Committee. Antoinette Brooks inquired about Cape Cod Cormission approval; to which Mr. Storrs stated the guidelines in concept have been approved, not in detail . The 'down Planner commented the current zoning does not require the architectural codes mentioned by Mr. Storrs and noted they should be included within the amended OSID Bye.aw for residential . In response to Mr. Baker' s questions, Mr. Storrs stated the width of the sidewalks would range from four to fourteen 1 feet . A fourteen (1 4) foot gide sidewalk on the South side; and a ten 10 foot wide sidewalk on the forth side of Job' s Fishing Road. In small-block areas, from four ) to six feet wide. Mr. Storrs clarified what is currently under discussion is proposed amendments to a 1996Commercial Center Bylaw, written by the Town Planner, for presentation at the May Town Meeting which deals with changes to dimensional requirements, not use changes . Mr. Brais asked if apartment units are being proposed in the East Steeple Street Neighborhood. Mr. Storrs stated the East Steeple street Neighborhood to be similar to Mashpee Conons in that it would be predominantly retail on the first door, offices -3-