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16 Great Neck Road North <br />Mashpee, Massachusetts 02649 <br />Mashpee Planning Board <br />Minutes of Meeting <br />Wednesday, June 7, 2023 at 7:OOPM <br />Mashpee Town Hall - Waquoit Meeting Room <br />16 Great Neck Road North <br />Mashpee, Ma 02649 <br />APPROVED: 06/21/2023 <br />Broadcast Live on Local Channel 18 <br />Call -in Conference Number: (508)-539-1400 x 8585 <br />Streamed Live on the Town of Mashpee website <br />hilos://www.masiioeema.gov/cliannel -18 <br />Present: Chair Karen Faulkner, Mary Waygan, Dennis Balzarini, Mike Richardson, Dale <br />Oakley, Robert (Rob) Hansen <br />Also Present: Evan Lehrer — Town Planner, Matt Eddy — Baxter & Nye Engineering, Jack <br />McElhinney — Attorney for Southworth Mashpee, Troy Miller — Director of Development <br />Willowbend <br />CALL TO ORDER <br />Chairwoman Faulkner called the meeting of the Planning Board to order at 7:OOP.M. The <br />Pledge of Allegiance was recited. <br />OPENING REMARKS FROM THE CHAIR <br />Ms. Faulkner thanked everyone for being present this evening. She is looking forward to a <br />Board who works collaboratively and in harmony. She recognized Mr. Hansen as being a calm <br />voice of reason and decency. Mr. Oakley, a newly elected member, gives a youthful <br />perspective as well as hands on experience from his position as Assistant Director of Natural <br />Resources for the Tribe. Mr. Balzarini brings vast wisdom from being a Planning Board <br />member for 30 years. Ms. Waygan has an encyclopedic knowledge for all things Planning <br />Board and housing issues. Mr. Richardson served two terms as a Select Board member, <br />served on Finance Committee, as well as the Affordable Housing Committee. He enjoys the <br />aesthetics, for things to look attractive, and he is partial to protecting trees. She thanked Mr. <br />Lehrer for his ongoing support to not only the Board, but herself especially. She often seeks <br />Mr. Lehrer's opinion and she comes with a legal skillset. She quoted Mr. Richardson in saying <br />we have to find a balance between development and environmental concerns. We will seek <br />this goal not as combatants but as a colleagues working towards a common goal. Our citizens <br />deserve to be prosperous and live in a more environmentally healthy town. We must put down <br />