9/18/2012 DESIGN REVIEW COMMITTEE Minutes

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Minutes of Combined Meeting of Mashpee Design Review Committee and Mashpee Plan Review Committee Held Tuesday, September 18, 2012 Mashpee Town Hall Meeting Room 1 Design Review Members Present: Walter Yarosh, Mary LeBlanc, and Jonathan Furbush Plan Review Members Present: Charlie Maintanis, Local Inspector Tom Fudala, Town Planner Joel Clifford, Fire Inspector Glen Harrington, Health Agent Catherine Laurent, DPW Director Scott Carline, Police Department Joyce Mason, Town Manager Charlie Maintanis called the meeting to order at 9:03 a.m. Cotuit Solar 36 Savannah's Path New Commercial Building Conrad Geyser appeared. He said the property is zoned commercial but residential use. He would like to figure the best way to get commercial use. Mr. Geyser showed a Plan to show what is happening on the site. Main issue is set backs from a paper road. Walter Yarosh said he went and looked at the site. Tom Fudala noted that site was residential but owner had re-zoned to commercial and it is zoned as C-2. Walter said it comes down to set-back requirements. Walter said he calculated the height would be 22 feet and would run about 10-11 feet on the small side. The square footage per structure would be about 2400 square feet...that's a pretty big structure. Mr. Geyser agreed with Walter's statement and said that size is typical of these solar panel structures. Walter said it is very large and he thinks this is over-building a lot. Mr. Geyser replied that with paper road it wouldn't be seen. Walter pointed out that you can't assume paper road will always stay that way. Walter said he thinks this is a great business, but it's not the place to put it. The discussion and review included the following: • Mr. Geyser said he couldn't access off Simons Road so they're doing Route 28 access. • Jonathan Furbush pointed out the 20% lot coverage. Also, Mr. Furbush not satisfied with set- backs proposed, • Mr. Geyser willing to forego third barn further to the south. In order to do anything, they need some type of set-back relief. Walter noted Applicant creating own hardship so difficult to ask for hardship variance. Solar panels are for production purposes. • Nobody would live there;just some office space, Walter said if changed to C-2 zoning and no one looked whether it could be developed, maybe get rid of the paper road. Mr. Geyser said some of the problem comes from the fact that the paper road is there and he feels getting rid of the paper road makes sense. Walter said if paper road removed and you comeback to Design Review then it would be a screening issue, which can be dealt with.