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Draft 1 - March 16, 1995 <br /> or take any other action relating thereto. <br /> Submitted by the Conservation Commission <br /> Explanation: The Commission has had this requirement in place for nearly two <br /> years,but this language change, recommended by the Massachusetts Association of <br /> Conservation Commissions, would enable this Bylaw (Chapter 172) provision to <br /> better withstand legal challenge. The need for protecting naturally vegetated buffer <br /> strips of at least 50 feet in width is well documented in research. It has been <br /> incorporated into many Town bylaws. This language puts our Mashpee Bylaw <br /> wording in consonance with similar versions that have been upheld at the highest <br /> level of judicial review in Massachusetts. <br /> Article 46. 0 <br /> M <br /> To see if the Town will v to to amend Section of Chapter 172 of the Mashpee <br /> Code to read: <br /> The purpose of this Chapter is o protect the etlands, related water resources and <br /> adjoining land areas in the Town f Mashpe by prior review and control of activities <br /> deemed by the Conservation Co issio likely to have significant or cumulative <br /> effect upon resource area values, in ud' but not limited to the following: public or <br /> private water supply, groundwater, fl control, erosion and sedimentation control, <br /> storm damage prevention including astal storm flowage, water quality, water <br /> pollution control, fisheries, shellfis , w dlife habitat and biodiversity-, rare species <br /> habitat including rare plant specie , recr tion, agriculture and aquaculture values <br /> (collectively "the wetland values tected this chapter".) This Chapter is intended <br /> to utilize the Home Rule autho ' y of this m icipality to protect additional resource <br /> areas, for additional values, w'th additional s dards and procedures stricter than <br /> those of the Wetlands Protect n Act, G.L. Cha er 13 1, Section 40 and Regulations <br /> thereunder, 310 CMR 10. <br /> or take any other action re ting thereto. <br /> Submitted by e Conservation Commission <br /> Explanation: This is corrective language to insert the words "control" after the <br /> phrase <br /> It pollution." The words were inadvertently omitted from the bylaw <br /> when originally written. The Section also includes language recommended by the <br /> Massachusetts Association of Conservation Commissions-language intended to <br /> Page 22 <br />