8/8/2018 ENVIRONMENTAL OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE Minutes

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MASHPEE ENVIRONMENTAL OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES AUGUST 8, 2018 - 6:30 P.M. MASHPEE TOWN HALL Present: Michael Talbot, Rick York, Ashley Fisher, Katelyn Cadoret, Tom Hoppensteadt, Joe Cummings Absent: Dale McKay, Andrew Gottlieb CALL TO ORDER Chair Michael Talbot opened the meeting at 5:55 p.m. APPROVAL OF MEETING MINUTES: July 11, 2018 Motion: Joe Cummings moved to approve the July 11, 2018 minutes with one correction. Seconded by Katelyn Cadoret. Vote unanimous 6-0 COMMUNICATIONS & CORRESPONDENCE: NEW BUSINESS Discuss the Planning Board's Proposed Mixed-Use Planned Development Zoning Bylaw for the October Town Warrant with Mary Waygan, Chair; Please review the proposed bylaw vs. the Mashpee Common's proposed zoning changes Mary Waygan, Chair of the Mashpee Planning Board, distributed a copy of the Mixed Use Planned Development Zoning Article. She said the Planning Board submitted this to the Board of Selectmen for inclusion in the 2018 October Town Meeting Warrant as a petitioned article to make sure it would go in. Since we last met, Mashpee Commons came into the Planning Board and said that they are not going forward with their form base code bylaw for October town meeting. They will do it next year in either May or October. She said the Planning Board might ask the Board of Selectmen to pull the article which cannot get pulled until town meeting. She said she is visiting committees to keep everyone up to date because she is sure they will have an extended public hearing process. She said there would be a 60--acre development around Mashpee Commons with 100 to 1500 new dwelling units and some of the buildings would be 5 stories. The only density we have been able to get Mashpee Commons to state is 4 to 4 units per acre but if they go to five stories they will go above that. Their form base code piece doesn't have any inclusionary housing or open space but the planning