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1 Refuge Management Committee. The Refuge Conference and working on an EPA grant for a Management Committee continued to focus its efforts groundwater study of the suitability of a Permeable on planning for public safety, particularly wildfire Reactive Barrier for groundwater nitrogen removal hazard protection,as well as on habitat protection and adjacent to Sandalwood. a specific project related to rare New England Cottontail rabbits, and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife The Planning Department/Planning Board pages Service's Congressionally-mandated"Comprehensive of the Town's website provide Planning Board forms, Conservation Plan" for the Mashpee Refuge. Work planning-related links, the Town's Zoning Bylaw, also continued on trails and access planning for the project checklists,the Board's Subdivision and Special Refuge, including development of a new trails map, Permit Regulations and other planning-related through a Trails Subcommittee on which I serve.The documents. It is my goal in the coming year to keep Selectmen have now signed an updated Memorandum the website updated on a regular basis. Recordings of of Understanding with the other partners in the Refuge television broadcasts of the Planning Board's meetings which will provide a solid basis for continued progress can also be viewed on the Town's website at in managing and improving lands in the Refuge. I have http://www.mashpeema.gov. also been meeting as part of a working group preparing a proposal to install three entrance signs to the Mashpee I greatly appreciate the assistance of the Historic District on Main Street and Great Neck Road Inspections,ZBA and Board of Health staff in serving North and a series of historical signs and markers at as the Department's"front desk",letting people know various historic buildings and sites in the District and where to find me, taking delivery of plans and other other parts of Mashpee. The group hopes to file an materials and taking questions when I am not available. application for Community Preservation Act funding I am also tremendously grateful for the support and in 2016. encouragement of our new Town Manager, our excellent Planning Board members,and for that which Other projects worked on and meetings attended the Department has received for more than 31 years in 2015 included the Selectmen's proposed Land from Mashpee's citizens. I am particularly grateful that Disposition Project; working with the Cape Cod the Town Manager and October Town Meeting Commission on the Mashpee RESET Project;multiple supported re-funding the Assistant Planner position and meetings regarding the Cape Cod Commission's that a re-consolidated Planning Department office will wastewater"208 Plan" update under the Clean Water be established in 2016,allowing us to re-start work on Act;planning for a proposed affordable housing project our Comprehensive Plan update and improve customer on Town land at 950 Falmouth Road; reviewing service. I welcome your opinions on the planning options for the Town's boat ramps; a webinar on issues that face the Town,especially with regard to the "Climate Change&Resilience";working with Charter Comprehensive Plan update, suggested zoning Realty,the new owners of South Cape Village,on their amendments and the Planning Board's Greenways plans and options for completion and"repositioning"of plan, and encourage you to participate actively in the development; multiple meetings with other Upper meetings and community debates about our town's Cape representatives on the Cape Cod Commission's future. Please feel free to contact me with any opinions update to its Regional Policy Plan;speaking at the 20th or suggestions at (508)539-1414 or via e-mail at anniversary celebration of the Mashpee National tfudala@mashoeema.gov. Wildlife Refuge; a podcast on "Aging in Place: Planning's Role and Responsibilities"; working with Respectfully submitted, the proposed developers of a brew pub at the old F. Thomas Fudala "Flume" restaurant site; quarterly joint meetings with Town Planner the other Cape Cod Town Planners; assisting with a proposed land donation to the Conservation Commission on the east side of Santuit Pond;assisting Habitat for Humanity on their Quinaquisset Avenue and Orchard Road houses; participation in a focus group on seniors health needs at the Community Health Center; participating in the 3rd annual Cape Coastal 120