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5) adding the phrase ", congregate care or assisted may also be required by the Planning Board to living facilities" after the words "convalescent protect adjacent property owners from adverse homes" in the title of Subsection 174-45; impacts of the project or to protect the character 6) amending Subsection 174-45.A. to add the fol- of the neighborhood." lowing phrase: ", except that such uses may be 11) add the following new subsection 174-45.I.: j included in a special permit approved under Section 174-46.H."; "I. Except within the C-1 zoning district, a mini- mum of fifty percent (50%) of any site, which 7) amending the first sentence of Subsection 174- may include the buffer areas required by 45.13. to read as follows: "Unless such facility Subsection D., shall be left as undisturbed open I. will be serviced by a public sewer system or a space in its natural state."; private wastewater treatment plant approved by or take any other action relating thereto. the Planning Board and Board of Health which is designed to achieve total nitrogen of 5 mg/1 or Submitted by the Planning Board less in plant effluent, the following land area Explanation: This article would allow age-restricted shall be required for such facilities:"; congregate care or assisted living residential facilities 8) adding a new subsection 174-45.B.(3) which in any residential or commercial zoning district by reads as follows: special permit from the Planning Board under the "(3) Congregate care or assisted living facility: same process that currently applies to hotels, motels, hospitals, infirmaries, nursing homes, convalescent twenty thousand (20,000) square feet per I' dwelling unit plus ten thousand (10,000) square homes and similar uses. It also adds definitions of feet for each one hundred ten (110) gallons of those uses, specifies parking requirements, specifies sewage flow, calculated under the provisions of minimum natural buffer areas, specifies minimum site 314 CMR 7.15, as amended, generated by any area for such facilities if they are not serviced by a other uses on the site."; public sewer system or a private wastewater treatment plant approved by the Planning Board and Board of 9) adding the phrase "located in the Mashpee Health and requires that a minimum of 50% of the site Center Overlay District or" after the Word be left as undisturbed open space except in the com- "Unless"in Subsection 174-45.C.; mercial zone around the Mashpee rotary. 10) replacing the current wording of Subsection 174- Motion made by Wayne Taylor. 45.1). with the following: Motion: I move Article 28 be voted as printed in the "D. Unless located within the Mashpee Center Warrant, except to amend paragraph 2) to delete the Overlay District, a space not less than fifty (50) words "residential and" and the letters "R-3" and "R- feet in depth shall be maintained as a wooded 5" and with the exception of the phrase, "or take any j buffer area in its natural state along each side, other action relating thereto". rear and front lot line, except for permitted signs Motion made by F. Thomas Fudala to amend. and up to two (2) access driveways involving clearance of a path no more than forty (40) feet Motion to amend passes at 9:22 p.m. i! i in width and except that said area may be Amended motion made by F. Thomas Fudala: I reduced by a four fifths vote of the Planning move that Article 28 be further amended by deleting iC . Board as part of its special permit decision for the words "C-2 and C-3 in paragraph 2) and replacing such projects when located in the C-1 them with the words"and C-2",by changing the num- !; Commercial District.Where such area is not nat- i, ber of the new subsection described in item 8) from urally wooded, it shall be suitably planted with „ " sufficient trees and understory vegetation, of a subsection 174-45.B.(3) to subsection 174- t e 45.B.(4) and by correcting the printed text of item 4) type common in natural areas of Mashpee, to so that the words "Congregate care or 1 per dwelling i replicate a naturally wooded area and to consti- unit plus one per assisted living facility employee" �1 tute a visual barrier between the proposed devel- read as follows: opment and the roadway. Under no circum- stances will parking, retention ponds, or any Congregate Care or 1 per dwelling unit other development involving clearance of natural assisted living facility plus 1 per employee vegetation be permitted within said area. planning Board voted at a Public Hearing held Limited, appropriate tree surgery or similar lim- ited maintenance required to protect the health of September 6,2000 4-0 for approval. vegetation in this area may be allowed with the Amended motion passes unanimously at 9:30 p.m. approval of a majority of the Planning Board. Additional area,plantings,fencing or other items 93