03/24/2022 HISTORICAL COMMISSION Minutes

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cov"A' l a' sdipee w 16 Great Neck Rood Norte Mashpee,, Massachusetts 02649 Telephone-(508).539-1438 MASHPEE HISTORICAL COMMISSION Minutes of Meeting—March 24, 2022 Mashpee Historical Commission meeting was called to order by Ava Costello, Chair, at 4:04 pm. Commissioners Present: Ava Costello, Richard DeSorgher, Nancy Soderberg. Rosemary Burns Love and Ann Graham, Clerk, telephoned in Commissioner not Present: Brian Hyde, Joan Tavares-Avant, and Brian Weeden Evan Lehrer, Mashpee Town Planner, Ashley Sweet and Caroline Wells, Consultants for Weston & Sampson, and Dennis Balzarini from the Historic District Commission came to speak to us about updating the Town of Mashpee Comprehensive Plan. The last Comprehensive Plan was done in 1992, so it is long overdue. The Planning Board is visiting all the Town Commissions to have them update their particular section of the plan. They are at the beginning of the process, and the consultants have drafted the chapters. Our section would be Historic Preservation and Cultural Resources. They would like to work with the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe before submitting the chapter to us for our comments. They would especially like for us to include anything that we would like to have changed or implemented in the future. It is a policy setting document to guide the community forward. When the Planning Board makes decisions, they must be in conformance with the Comprehensive Plan. The updated Comprehensive Plan will be reviewed and adopted by the Town at Town Meeting, and then it will go to the Cape Cod Commission which has the governing control. The timeline is to have a completed draft by the end of summer 2022. There will be many public meetings for comments and input from members of the community. They are looking forward to presenting the updated Plan to the Town by the May 2023 Town Meeting. It will be a living document that we will be able to update and make changes to in the future if and when they are needed.