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"Form-based Design Code—A set of land development regulations that fosters predictable built results and a high-quality public realm by using physical form as its organizing principle. It addresses the relationship between building facades and the public realm, the form and mass of buildings in relation to one another, and the scale and types of streets and blocks. It includes 1) a Regulating Plan designating locations where different building form standards apply; 2) Public Standards specifying elements in the public realm, including sidewalks, travel lanes, on-street parking, street trees and furniture etc.; 3) Building Standards controlling the features, configurations and functions of buildings that define and shape the public realm; 4) a streamlined administrative process for implementation of the Code and 5) a glossary of definitions to ensure the precise use of technical terms. The Code may also include architectural standards, landscaping standards, signage standards, environmental resource standards and illustrations explaining the intentions of specific Code provisions." Amend Section 174-25 Table of Use Regulations as follows: Add a new subsection H. (14) "Mixed-use Planned Development, allowed by Special Permit pursuant to the provisions of§174-46.1" and add the notation "SP" under the C-1, R-3 and R-5 columns. Add the following new Section: 174-46.1 Mixed-use Planned Development (MPD) A. Purpose and intent. The purposes and intent of this Section are to promote an efficient pattern of land development and the more efficient use of land and municipal infrastructure in Mashpee, to enhance the aesthetic character and livability of our built environment, to encourage the preservation of open space and natural areas, to reduce the impact of new development on the Town's water quality and natural resources, to provide affordable housing and to protect and promote the health, safety and general welfare of the inhabitants of the town. B. Approval by Special Permit. To achieve said purposes, the Planning Board may issue a Special Permit authorizing a Mixed-use Planned Development (MPD) pursuant to the following standards and procedures. C. Land Area Permitted, Open Space Requirement. A Mixed-use Planned Development shall encompass a minimum land area of twenty (20) acres, which may be in one or more parcels, and shall consist of one acre of allowed developed area for each acre of upland (i.e. excluding water bodies or wetlands as defined under MGL C. 131, §40)permanently set aside as undeveloped open space and deeded to the Town of Mashpee in the care and custody of its Conservation Commission (provided that said land is not subject to any previous conservation restriction or other prohibition on its development), or one-half acre of allowed developed area for each acre of upland (i.e. excluding water bodies or wetlands as defined under MGL C. 131, §40) permanently set aside as undeveloped open space or as agricultural land and deeded to 1) a nonprofit organization, the principal purpose of which is the conservation of open space or agricultural land or 2) a corporation or trust owned, or to be owned, by the owners of lots or commercial or residential units within the MPD, with ownership of the corporation or trust to pass 22