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To gain more knowledge regarding stormwater management, chairman Beverly Kane attended a Report of the Stormwater Conference,held at the University of New Planning Department Hampshire on April 11, 2006. We will continue our efforts to develop action To the Honorable Board of Selectmen and the plans that will result in lowering the impacts of Citizens of the Town of Mashpee: untreated stormwater, reduce the volume of stormwa- ter runoff, and limit lawn fertilization.. During 2006, the Planning Department contin• ued to provide Town boards, developers and residents The Planning Board recognizes that our duties with the highest quality planning advice and standards cannot be accomplished without the expertise of our while working on a wide variety of projects. We were Planning Department staff. We extend our sincere greatly assisted in these efforts when an eleven month thanks and appreciation to this excellent supporting vacancy in the Assistant Planner position was capably staff: Town Planner F. Thomas Fudala, Assistant filled in May by Thomas J. Mayo. Town Planner Tom Mayo, Administrative Assistant Charlotte Garron, Consulting Engineer Charles Tom came to the Department with fourteen years Rowley, and our Board Secretary Sonny of experience in Geographic Information Systems DeArcangelis. (GIS), including two years as the Town of Framingham's GIS Coordinator, along with a planning Your Planning Board conducts public meetings background that included two years on the Westbrook, on the first and third Wednesdays of each month at Connecticut Planning Board. While the Department 7:00 p.m. at the Mashpee Town Hall,unless otherwise has been developing the Town's Geographic posted. Planning Board meetings are televised live on Information System (GIS) since 1992, Tom has Channel 18, and public information is available on the brought us to a whole new level in a few short months, Planning Department website at www.ci.mashpee.ma.us. Just before Tom arrived,the project begun by our former Assistant Planner Eric Smith to implement a We thank the citizens of Mashpee for the privi- Town GIS Internet site came to fruition with the lege of serving our community. startup of the site in February. The project was com- pleted by the MIS Department through a contract with Respectfully submitted, Camp Dresser&McKee,Inc.funded by the Cable and Term Expires Advanced Technology Advisory Board. Now other Beverly A. Kane, Chair 2009 Town departments and the general public can access many of the Town's GIS mapping resources,including Dennis Balzarini, Vice-Chair 2009 Lee Gurney, Clerk 2007 parcel maps, zoning,planimetric data,topography and John Halachis 2008 aerial photography, also linked to basic Assessors' Myrna Nuey 2007 data. For the rest of the year's exciting GIS develop- Harvey Cohen,Associate Member 2008 ments, see Tom Mayo's GIS report below. 2006 saw the re-start of our project to develop Local Historic District in the Route 130 area. Under a $12,000 grant from Barnstable County's Local Comprehensive Plan Implementation Program,Public Archaeology Lab (PAL) was hired to assist the Historic District Study Committee and the Town Planner in completing the project. Meeting through- out the year, the group has developed a proposed dis- trict boundary, draft district regulations and a "Preliminary Study Report" required by state regula. tions, met with a Massachusetts Historical i Commission (MHC) representative and held its first public meeting with residents of the proposed district 2007 should see submission a final Preliminary Study Report to the Planning Board and MHC, a formal Pub" lic hearing on the proposal, preparation of a Final Report, map and by-law and submission of a warrant article to Town Meeting to create the district. 114