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time, under and pursuant to Chapter 44 Section 7 or 8 or any other enabling authority, for such purchase or taking and layout including costs of constructing such ways and legal financing and other costs incidental and related thereto; and further authorize the Board of Selectmen to assess betterments to the owners of the land abutting the ways. Motion passes unanimously at 7:1PM. Article 1.1. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Mashpee Zoning By-law as follows: Amend Subsection 1,74-47.B.(51) by amending its last sentence by amending the phrase "6) provide for reasonable privacy and landscape buffers between residences" to read "6) provide for reasonable privacy and landscape buffers between residences, (except where attached zero- setback residences are allowed by the Board)" and Amend Subsection 174-47.B.(10) to read as follows.- "At least one of each ten lots allowed as part of such subdivision under the provisions of Subsection B,(2), shall be reserved for construction only of a permanently deed-restricted home meeting the low income affordability requirements of MGL Ch. 40B as it existed on October 18, 2010. For each of said lots so reserved, one additional lot may also be created, which will become buildable for a single family residence upon completion and sale of each of said deed-restricted homes, or upon donation of, and recording of a deed to, the lots set aside for such deed-restricted homes to the Town or to a public or non-profit housing agency or trust. Such permanently deed-restricted affordable homes or lots shall. not be subject to the growth management provisions of Section 174-26. Where completion and sale of said deed-restricted homes or donation of said lots is not done within three years of the approval of the special permit, the additional lots shall be considered permanently unbuildable and part of the restricted open space." Or take any other action related thereto. Submitted by Petition Explanation: The existing cluster zoning by-law allows, the Planning Board to specify setbacks in cluster subdivisions which are different than those required in the underlying zoning district. The first portion of this article clarifies that when the Board allows zero lot line housing, a landscape buffer will not be required between residences. The second portion of the article makes minor changes to the subsection requiring the provision of affordable housing to clarify that more than one lot in ten may be set aside for affordable housing, and that an additional lot may be allowed for each such lot set aside for affordable housing. Motion made to dispense with reading of article made at 7:41PM. Motion to dispense with reading of article passes at 7:41PM The Board of Selectmen recommends approval by a vote of 5-0. The Finance Committee recommends approval by a vote of 6-�0, one absent. 9