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16 Great Neck Road forth <br />Mashpee, Massachusetts 02649 <br />mapped out how the towns could enter these payments in lieu of taxes and would get the full <br />amount of benefit of the solar. <br />Ms. Waygan repeated Mashpee would earn approximately $2 Million over twenty years on page 13. <br />She asked if that was in taxes. <br />Mr. Server noted the payment in lieu of taxes plus the land donation and lease. <br />Ms. Waygan asked if he had a signed agreement with the Town. Can he get a Memorandum of <br />Agreement signed by the Town? She asked if he would have it for Town Meeting. That's a big <br />problem for her. <br />Mr. Server said that's a good question, he does not have a signed agreement as he was waiting <br />until this would gain approval. He hopes when this comes back for Special Permits the Board would <br />have authority to make that a condition. <br />Ms. Waygan said no, not unless it is put in the zoning bylaw. If it is not in the zoning bylaw then <br />there is no agreement with him. She is happy he is interested in Mashpee; she was not sure if she <br />has heard of this company associated with this parcel before. <br />Mr. Lehrer stated it is new to him. He also wants to note the article submitted by petition is identical <br />to the article submitted to the Selectmen. It proposed medium and large scale solar across all <br />zoning districts on the premise the Town cannot unreasonably regulate solar energy systems. <br />Currently, it is limited to industrial districts by Plan Review. The majority are small and can't sustain <br />large scale or commercial solar. Upon submission of the article there is effective prohibition of the <br />use, but they did not want to put it on the Warrant at that time. After meeting with Town Counsel, it <br />was decided the Town is reasonably regulating use. Counsel felt the Town would be protected <br />against any challenges regarding denying Special Permits outside the confines of zoning. <br />Mr. Lehrer also stated when he and Ms. Waygan met with Counsel and the Board of Selectmen his <br />takeaway was, they do not want to incentivize the development of solar energy systems anywhere <br />but disturbed parcels, areas like parking lots sand pits. That's why it was removed from <br />consideration. Sometime thereafter, the property owner reached out to the Planning Board and <br />asked if the Board would consider working with them to sponsor articles. As property owners are in <br />power under the Zoning Act to submit articles, which is why we are here today. It is generally <br />responsive to feedback from initial refusals where it's isolated from singular parcels, there are some <br />trees, with relatively new growth but a large percent is sand. The performance and design <br />standards are the same. One change that was submitted by petition was the ability for the Board in <br />a Special Permit decision could set a unique lot coverage maximum because in C2 lot coverage <br />maximum is 20%. This would mean you can only put panels on 20% of the parcel. The changes say <br />there may be a need or want to exceed 20% to meet more solar access needs. It will be at the <br />discretion of the Board to increase lot coverage by way of that proposal. <br />5 <br />