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• Article 26 expands permitted uses in the Industrial Zoning Districts to include veterinary establishments, kennels and other similar types of animal-related establishments. • Article 27 updates the Water Quality Report bylaw adopted in the 1980's to require watershed mapping, target nitrogen loads, and adopt other standards and specifications developed by the Massachusetts Estuaries Project. • Article 28 allows flexibility in the presently required 10 foot landscaped buffer areas where such areas do not meet the design character of the project or area. • Article 29 seeks to update and clarify the subdivision bylaw to make cluster subdivisions mandatory in most cases,while increasing the minimum open space requirement in such subdivisions from 35% to 50%, permit flexibility in the size and dimensions for building lots, require affordable housing provisions, and permit density bonuses for additional open space and affordable housing. • Article 30 will amend the "Land Space Requirements Table"to require an FAA Determination of No Hazard when any proposed structure or personal wireless service facility will exceed 40 feet in height. • Article 31 amends the Sign bylaw to permit, where appropriate, more than one 20 square foot sign for large projects before the Planning Board. 'r THE FINANCE COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS TOWN MEETING APPROVAL OF ARTICLES 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30,AND 31. Article 32. Amend Waterways Bylaw. This Article submitted by the Waterways Commission and the Harbormaster seeks approval for amendments to the Waterways Bylaws to reflect changed state regulations pertaining to Mashpee-Wakeby Lake and to make several Bylaw wording changes and corrections. , i THE FINANCE COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS TOWN MEETING APPROVAL OF ARTICLE 32. Articles 33 and 34. Authorize Public Streets. These two articles are petitions by residents, whose homes are on what are now private roads, who are requesting that their streets be accepted as Town of Mashpee public streets. The procedure for accomplishing this is a two step process, each step of which requires the approval by the voters at Town Meeting. Step 1 involves the authorization for the town to prepare the legal description of the streets to be accepted and sets a"not to exceed" amount to complete the task. Step 2 involves the approval of the actual, projected costs to bring the street(s)under consideration to municipal road construction and drainage standards and includes the authorization to bill the affected property owners as "betterment assessments". As a result all the costs associated with both processes are borne by the residents of those streets, and there is no immediate impact on municipal expenditures. Once a street is accepted as a town street, future repairs, resurfacing and the maintenance of storm water drainage systems become the responsibility of the town's Department of Public Works. The 2 articles are as follows: 9