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Explanation-, This article would allow veterinary establishments, kennels and similar establishments in Industrial zoning districts (they are currently permitted only in Commercial zoning districts), add animal day care facilities as a specific allowed use, and amend the current requirement that animals be "Dept wholly indoors" to provide the permitting authority the ability to authorize outdoor exercise runs or yards. The hoard of Selectmen recommends approval. The Finance Committee recommends approval by a vote of 4-0. Planning :hoard voted at a Public Hearing held on September 20, 2006 5-0 to recommend approval. Motion made by Selectman Wayne Taylor. Motion: I move Article 26 be voted as printed in the warrant, except for the phrase "or tape any other action relating thereto". Motion passes unanimously at 8 15 P.M. Article 27 To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning By-law by amending Section: 174-27 as follows: Replace the current wording of Subsection .(1) with the following: "(1) whether or not the development lies a. within. a Groundwater Protection District (see Art. XIII), b. within a previously defined Zone II recharge area of an existing or proposed public water supply well, c. within three hundred oo) feet of the Santuit, Mashpee, Quashnet or Childs Divers, Quaker Run south of Route 28, Red Brook or any pond, bay or other surface water body or of any adjacent wetlands as defined by MGL C. 13 1, 40, or d. within the groundwater recharge zone of any great pond or bay or other surface water body over one 1) acre. With regard to the groundwater recharge zones of surface water bodies, reference shall be made to the watershed and subwatershed delineations prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey and Gape Cod Commission for the Massachusetts Estuaries Project iinal reports entitled "Linked watershed-Ernbaym er:t Model to Determine Critical. Nitrogen Loading Thresholds for Popponesset Bay, 1lashpee and Barnstable, Massachusetts", dated September 2004, and "Linked watershed-Embayment Model to Determine Critical Nitrogen Loading g t nresholds for the Quashnet River, Hamblin Pond, and Je u Pond, in: the vaquoit Bay Systems of the Towns of 1' ashpee and Falmouth, ILIA", dated. January 2005. For other great pods or bays, and surface water bodies over one 1.) acre, a reap of the groundwater recharge zone shall be produced as part of the water quality report if it appears that the development may lie within the recharge zone of said water body, with said map to be based on the U.S. Geological Survey's regional groundwater model of the Sagamore floe cell, or more detailed modeling based on that model." 21