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The Commission's 19-member appointed board – to enable towns to seek flexible , and 40 professional staff members carry out this mis- Development of Regional Impact (DRI) 1 cion by: thresholds in areas that are adequately sup.I 21 ported by infrastructure and to guide growth • leading, supporting, and enforcing the devel- away from areas that should be Protected; opment of regional infrastructure, plans, poli- cies, and regulations to guide and manage amendments to Chapter D: Regulations growth;and, Governing the Provision of Development Agreements – to allow developments the • supporting the 15 towns of Barnstable option to pursue a two-or three-party contact County/Cape Cod with professional and cost- to provide comprehensive planning and to vest, effective planningand technical support ser- vices. development rights with towns and/or the Commission in lieu of a DRI review; The Commission's professional staff is orga- amendments to Chapter G: Growth Incentive': nized into three main working groups: Planning and Zone Regulations–to further enable the towns Community Development, Technical Services, and to request modification of the Commission's Legal/Regulatory. Planning and Community DRI thresholds to attract development into Development activities focus on affordable housing, their designated growth zones and away from:! a coastal resources,community design,economic devel- other outlying areas; opment, energy planning, historic preservation, land use planning and growth management, and natural amendments to Section 14 of the Enabling resources. Technical Services focus on geographic Regulations Governing Developments of rz information, transportation, and water resources. Legal/Regulatory activities focus on regulatory Regional Impact–to enable a property owner to seek a certificate in recordable form that reviews of Developments of Regional Impact (DRIB), his/her development is not a DRI if it so qual- development agreements, and more. ifies; and, Wpk Complete information about the Cape Cod scoping checklists to enable a development to Commission is online at seek limited DRI review in specific issue areas www.capecodcommission.org . to provide a streamlined DRI review. MAJOR ACTIVITIES IN THE REGION,Fiscal Year 2010 The Commission staff participated in the devel- opment of the Massachusetts Ocean Management The Cape Cod Commission completed its first Plan (OMP) through the state's Ocean Advisory annual review of the 2009 Regional Policy plan(RPP) Committee and supported Barnstable County's subse- this year, focusing on the Affordable Housing section quem designation of the first Cape-wide District of and technical amendments to several regulatory sec- Critical Planning Concern (DCPC), the Ocean tions of the plan and regional regulatory maps. The Commission continued to work with towns to adopt Management Planning DCPC, in response to the state's promulgation of the OMP in January 2010.The their portions of the Regional Land Use Vision Map to staff is now working with a policy committee with enable towns to apply for reduced regional regulatory representatives from each town; technical advisors oversight by the Commission in areas suitable for with expertise in renewable energy, visual —increased development. , and natural resources; stakeholders; and the public to The Commission created or revised many regu- guide a region-wide planning process to evaluate the appropriate scale and location for potential renewable lations this year to provide flexibility for devel' opment energy and other developments in Cape Cod's ocean while encouraging a map-based approach to planning: waters within the state boundary. • amendments to the Code of Cape Cod Commission Regulations of General The Commission completed the annual update to Applications to adopt Chapter H: Municipal the The Comprehensive Economic Development Application for Revisions to DRI Thresholds Strategy (CEDS) for Barnstable County and began implementation of the priority projects identified in 78