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Article 36 To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning By-law by amending the zoning map to include those parcels shown as Parcels C and D on a "Definitive Commercial Street Plan of Land, Mashpee, Massachusetts" by Baxter, Nye and Holmgren, Inc., revised date 5/23/03, which was signed by the Mashpee Planning Board on August 6, 20�03, along with the adjacent portion of the layout of Commercial Street, to its center line, within the C-I Commercial zoning district and further revise the zoning map to include all of that parcel shown on the 2003 Mashpee Assessors' Maps as Ma p 81, Block 126 in the 1 -3 Residential zoning district, and finally to delete any portion of these described parcels from the I-C Overlay zoning district, all as shown on a plan filed with the Town Clerk entitled"C-I Zoning Map Change —October 2004", or take any other action relating thereto. Submitted by Planning Board Explanation: This article would amend the zoning to C-I Commercial, from 1-1 Industrial, on the parcel that the Town has agreed to transfer to the Doreen Grace Brain Center for construction of an inn and conference center, along with an adjacent unbuildable parcel between it and the current C-1 zone, as well as clarifying the location of the adjacent R-3 zoning district boundary. Motion made by John Cahalane. Motion: I move Article 36 be voted as printed in the warrant with the exception of the phrase, "or take any other action relating thereto". Planning Board voted at a Public Hearing held on September 28, 2004 5-0 to recommend approval. Motion passes unanimously at 9:30 p.m. Article 37 To see if the Town will vote to amend Section 174-3 of the Zoning By-law by revising the definition of"Half-story" to read as follows: "HALF STORY —A story next beneath a sloping roof with a minimum pitch of 4 in 12, whose area having a height greater than four (4) feet vertically, measured between the top of the floor and the intersection of the bottoms of the rafters with the interior faces of the wall, does not exceed two-thirds of the floor area of the story immediately below it. Any exterior wall of said half7story shall be stepped back a minimum of two (2) feet from the wall plane of the story immediately below it and the total horizontal dimension of said exterior walls shall, not exceed two-thirds that of the story immediately below it or take any other action relating thereto. Submitted by Planning Board Explanation: This article is intended to clarify the meaning of"half-story" 25