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To have time to deal with residential developments' Ch. 131, Section 40, excluding flood zones or
<br /> effect on the Town's natural resources, environment, actively managed cranberry bogs, and any area 1
<br /> current watershed degradation and the overall quality brushed or cleared for golf course or associated
<br /> of life of its residents. construction,except that the Planning Board may
<br /> j To allow the Town to implement financial strategies approve, by a four-fifths vote, a waiver allowing
<br /> needed to deal with the impact of residential growth. reduction of said buffer to no less than 100 feel
<br /> when the Board determines that said waiver
<br /> The current number of permits issued in 1998 was would be consistent with the findings required
<br /> three hundred and twenty (320)of which only approx- under Section 174-24.C.(2), particularly with
<br /> imately seventy (70) to one hundred and fifteen (115) respect to its effect on water quality, wildlife '
<br /> were subject to this Bylaw. habitat or fisheries, and Mashpee Conservation
<br /> Commission has determined that the proposed
<br /> Motion to be made by Petitioner.
<br /> reduction is consistent with the provisions of the
<br /> ARTICLE 36 Massachusetts Wetlands Protection Act, the
<br /> To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning By- Mashpee Wetlands Bylaw (Chapter 172 of the
<br /> law by amending Section 174-25 "Table of Use Code of the Town of Mashpee) and the
<br /> Regulations" as follows: Commission's regulations. Additional area,
<br /> plantings, fencing or other similar items may be
<br /> Delete the words "country club" as they appear in required by the Planning Board to protect adja-
<br /> cent 174-25.B. (13) and (14); cent property owners or natural resources from
<br /> Add a new subsection 174-25.B.(17) as follows: adverse impacts of the project or to protect the f
<br /> character of the neighborhood. A minimum of
<br /> "(17) Golf course subject to the provisions of forty (40) percent of the site shall be left as open
<br /> Section 174-47.1." space in its undisturbed natural state, including
<br /> and indicate by the letters"SP"in all columns that said any buffer areas required from water bodies or
<br /> use is allowed in all zoning districts; wetlands, but not including water bodies, wet-
<br /> lands, cranberry bogs or the fifty (50) foot wide
<br /> And by adding to Article IX the following new buffer strips required above. Said open space
<br /> Section 174-47.1: shall be owned by one of the entities identified in
<br /> t. "174-47.1. Golf Course. Subsection 174-47.B.(6) and be made subject to
<br /> a deed restriction, enforceable by the Town of
<br /> Any such use and related development shall Mashpee,providing that said open space shall be
<br /> require the issuance of a special Permit
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<br /> left in essentially its undisturbed natural state,
<br /> Planning Board, whether proposed as part of a
<br /> residential development or other project, or as a except for pedestrian,equestrian or bicycle trails,
<br /> f minor clearing for water wells,pump houses and
<br /> separate use.
<br /> related access, provided that such activities may
<br /> The site permitted for development under this disturb no more than ten percent (10%) of such
<br /> section, including any required open space, shall open space. Where a proposed golf course lies ;
<br /> be a specifically defined parcel, bounded on the partly in another town, these requirements shall
<br /> ground with permanent monuments, which may be applied to that portion lying within the town L
<br /> not be considered to meet the open space require- of Mashpee and the required 40% open space
<br /> ments of any other section of these by-laws. shall be located in Mashpee. The Planning
<br /> A minimum undisturbed buffer stripof fifty 50 Board may grant a reduction in the amount of ',
<br /> Y ( ) said open space to no less than 35% if it is to be
<br /> feet in width shall be maintained between any deeded to the Town of Mashpee in the care and
<br /> area brushed or cleared for golf course or associ- custody of the Conservation Commission and
<br /> ated construction and any exterior site boundary said deed is accepted by the Conservation
<br /> line or the street layout line of a public way, Commission and approved by the Board of
<br /> except for access roads to the property and for
<br /> walking, bicycle or golf cart paths approved by Selectmen.
<br /> the Planning Board or for areas where the legal In addition to the golf course itself, the Planning
<br /> owner of the abutting property has certified, in Board may permit a country club, including din
<br /> writing, that he has no objection to the elimina- ing, lounge, pro shop, indoor athletic facilities,
<br /> tion or reduction of said buffer strip if approved tennis courts, swimming pools and other sinnlar
<br /> by the Planning Board. In addition, a minimum facilities normally associated with a golf course
<br /> undisturbed buffer areaof two hundred (200) and country club, along with necessary parking t
<br /> feet in width shall be maintained between anyareas, signage, maintenance structures and sill",
<br /> water body or wetland as defined under MGL. lar facilities. w`
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