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16 Great Neck Road North <br />Nashpee, .Massachusetts 02649 <br />CHAIRMANS REPORT <br />Meeting Start Time <br />Mr. Fulone noticed most of the boards and committees start at 6:OOp.m. or 6:30p.m. He thinks an <br />earlier start time is more consistent with the rest of the committees and meetings tend to run long. <br />Ms. Waygan cannot do 6:30p.m. <br />Mr. Balzarini likes 7:OOp.m. <br />Mr. Fulone wants to meet at 6:30p.m. <br />Ms. Waygan noted it's been 7:OOp.m, for years and she cannot make a 6:30p.m. start time, she needs <br />7:OOp.m. <br />Mr. Phelan likes 6:30p.m. because it gets out earlier, but he also wants a Board that's functioning. If it's <br />going to affect member attendance and cause problems he will keep it at 7:OOp.m. but he would like to <br />keep it open for discussion at a later time. <br />Mr. Fulone said it will be kept at 7:OOp.m. <br />LCP Update <br />Mr. Fulone wanted to impress that it has been 7 months since the Select Board voted unanimously to <br />join the Cape Cod Commission and the Mashpee Commons in creating the regions first of its kind three <br />party Development Agreement. The goal was for the Town, regional planning authority, and the <br />Commons to work collaboratively to create a 25 year development plan for the 130 acres adjacent to <br />the current Mashpee Commons site. With this being the first three party agreement, the process was <br />going to be challenging and adjustments would need to be made along the way. Little progress has <br />been made since early June, and in the absence of progress there has been lots of commentary, some <br />constructive, lots of it unproductive. <br />Mr. Fulone is frustrated with no forward momentum and he thinks it is time to regroup. The Board has <br />engaged a consultant to help update the Local Comprehensive Plan, which has not been updated since <br />1998. Chairman suggests this work be prioritized. He notes the Town Planner's buildout analysis <br />confirmed Mashpee's current zoning is not capable to support the variety of residential development <br />necessary to address the housing crisis, and is not capable in providing commercial development that <br />will preserve and augment the Towns character and charm. We have a good view of what the future of <br />the Commons could look like. Let's begin our vision work and hear from our neighbors, all of them, with <br />what they want and need. The updated LCP will serve as a long term framework for development and <br />add changes to archaic zoning and help inform the Commons expansion and other future development. <br />He is not suggesting the work stops, but to reprioritize updating the LCP prior to negotiating any long <br />term development projects. <br />