9/7/2004 AFFORDABLE HOUSING Minutes

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MASHPEE AFFORDABLE HOUSING COMMITTEE MEETING NOTES 09-07-2004 Present: Deb'orah Battles, Zella Elizenberry, Jamie Regan, Trudi Ide, Eric Smith 1. Call to Order: Meeting convened at 7:1 Opm II. a. Unable to approve June 1, 2004 minutes or July 6, 2004 meeting notes due to lack of quorum. III New Business a. Ralph WilImer of McGregor & Associates gave an update on the status of the Affordable Housing Action Plan. Stated that the Public Housing Forum in June went well. Now working on "suggested recommendations" based on the Housing Forum. Draft has been submitted to the Town Planner and Assistant Planner. Their feedback will be incorporated into a version that will go into a completed Draft Housing Action Plan that will be given to the Affordable Housing Committee within the next couple of weeks. The recommendations include suggested zoning changes and identification of possible parcels for future affordable housing units, along with a timetable to meet the 10% (ultimate goal). The survey narrative report will be added to the Plan as an appendix. Some of the zoning changes are to have mixed-use zoning districts, and to adopt inclusionary zoning. The Committee discussed the Survey results. b. Eric reviewed an upcoming workshop entitled "Developing Affordable Housing on Municipal Land." He was going to register and asked if any Committee members were interested to go. A prerequisite of attendance is to bring an identified site(s) to the meeting. He also said that John Cahalahe suggested that the old Senior Center site be used as a sample. The Committee felt it was a pretty small site. Eric suggested that perhaps besides the old Senior Centex, that land where the Breezy Acre duplexes are located, and a portion of Town -owned land where the High School is located, could be a other sites to discuss. C. A discussion was held about possible uses and setting up a subcommittee to further research ways to use the available $240,000 towards the creation of affordable housing units. Deb'orah talked about need to coordinate our efforts, particularly with the Mashpee Housing Authority and Mashpee Housing Trust. Only so much money to go around it is best to pool our resources. Zella said we should invite Leila Botsford in to a future meeting, so the Committee can hear about the Housing Authority's charter. Jamie said that Habitat for Humanity should also be considered and recommended that they be invited to a future meeting. Eric said that the Cape Cod Commission has hired an additional Affordable Housing Specialist, who is Laura Shufclt. She has done a lot of affordable housing work in the Town of Barnstable.