06/25/2019 ECONOMIC DEV AND INDUSTRIAL COMMITTEE Minutes

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Mashpee Economic Development Industrial Corporation (EDIC) Minutes — June 25, 2019 6:00 PM Popponesset Meeting Room Mashpee Town Hall Present: Carol Sherman, Denise Dutson, Pamela McCarthy, Robyn Simmons, Absent: Patrice Pimental, Glenn Thompson, Judy Daigneault (recording secretary) Attending: Evan Lehrer (Town Planner), Mary Waygan (Planning Board), Dennis Balzarini (Planning Board), Tom O'Hara (Board of Selectmen), Ron Bonvie (Zoning Board of Appeals), Susan Gable, Marjorie Hecht, Marcia McInnes, Lynne Barbie 1. Call Meeting to Order Chair Carol Sherman opened the meeting at 6:00 p.m. 2. New Business The EDIC started with New Business as there were people coming to the meeting to learn more about the subject. Evan Lehrer proposed changes to Section 174-45 of the zoning bylaw titled "Open Space Incentive Development." The current law only allows the development of two family, multifamily, or mixed-use property if the parcel(s) have a minimum of 20 acres and a 100-foot vegetated buffer for mixed use, which would separate the project instead of assimilating it into the community. He proposed dropping the 20-acre minimum and only requiring parcels of greater than 20 acres to have dedicated open space. There are a variety of non-subdividable parcels but they don't meet the 20-acre threshold. He said that if the housing market constraints are not alleviated, the local and regional economy will be adversely affected. Mary Waygan said that Mashpee would lose the 0% financing the town gets for wastewater if we don't have green space, and that the taxpayers would have to bear that burden. She also brought up the affordable housing requirement, and said the bylaw was written for Mashpee Commons specifically. Ron Bonvie suggested the town look at smaller parcels and require they have wastewater treatment. Carol Sherman mentioned that hotels weren't interested in the available parcels (specifically the 6.5 acre parcel next to the Community Health Center and Marshall's) as they wanted waterfront on the Cape. She asked about mixed-use, Even Lehrer said the town would have to change the zoning for that lot; Mary Waygan she thought that was the case unless the town kept 4013. In the discussion about affordable housing, the term "workforce housing" was mentioned by several people; Mary Waygan said that term is not legally defined and generally refers to