06/09/2010 ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS Minutes

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Mashpee Zoning Minutes Board of Appeals June 9, 2010 If Mr. White is allowed to create a loophole with his current request for year round use and more specifically the use of nine units for year round rental (this constitutes half of the motels occupancy). He will inevitably return to ask you to convert the remaining ten units to rental because the need is so great for "affordable housing" and he is such a good fellow for wanting to help the downtrodden while of course helping himself. If my voice is not heard this evening and this request passes Ion the other hand will have to continue tolerating the cursing and noise made by his renters in the parking lots, the aroma of marijuana floating through my yard on occasion, the barking of dogs and the cars coming in and out during the night. There has been an increase in police activity at the motel that was never present before. My family and I have had to tolerate incidents of vandalism to our property by long term motel dwellers. My home was paint balled and my bulkhead spray painted. We have had to endure many motel residents trespassing on our property using my basketball court and on occasion I have pulled into my driveway at night to find motel residents drinking in my gazebo. These nuances may not diminish your quality of life but they certainly negatively affect mine. Mr. White has requested this hearing as a resident of the town who wanted to be heard. He has relocated from his home state of New Hampshire as it was in his best interest to ,establish residency in order to pursue his goal of creating a rental unit apartment complex. I to would like to be afforded the same opportunity to be heard. I hope that you will hear my plea and understand my plight. It would be egregious for you to allow this motel to operate year round as an apartment rental property.This is an attempt to over ride the zoning laws for the use of this property without a feasibility study to assess the impacts of such a high concentration of people in a small area. If this is passed you will in essence have allowed at minimum a nine unit • low income apartment complex to replace a seasonal use motel. This will in effect obliterate any current capacity caps for occupancy at this motel and change the use of it from a seasonal motel to a multi unit apartment complex. This will continue to negatively impact property values in this area, increase the use of town resources and jeopardize the quality of life for current residents. The property was built and intended to be used as a seasonal motel. I urge you to vote NO on this request. I thank you for listening to my request. Thank you for time. Sincerely, Karen L. Cowan Mr. Blaisdell read into the record the following email opposed to the proposal: From: Anna R. Lewis (mailto:anna.lewis74@comcast.net] Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2010 11: 58 AM To: Cynthia Bartos Subject: Hearing Related to "Affordable Housing Association of New England"