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16 Great Neck RoadWorth <br />.Mashpee, -541assachusetts 02649 <br />Focus areas for Joint Meeting with Affordable Housing Committee <br />Mr. Lehrer discussed his buildout including his perception, opinion, and recommendations, with the <br />Affordable Housing Committee. He focused on the inadequacy of the current zoning to produce SHI <br />eligible units. He thinks the Town is utilizing all the tools currently at its disposal to address all the <br />affordable housing needs. The 950 Falmouth Road project (Red Brook Village), the workforce housing <br />project at 108 Commercial, and Habitat for Humanity with its ongoing projects. We are lacking in our <br />ability to incentivize private investment with affordable housing. It would be beneficial to discuss how <br />we define the actual need with regard to Affordable Housing on the 171h. What types of housing will <br />meet the need? Not just the minimum 10% mandate, he is referring to the actual need based on <br />demographics, income levels, and population characteristics. The LCP will benefit in this Town wide <br />collaborative conversation. We need to assess, define, and think about the future vision, to be in a solid <br />position to update the LCP and be in a position to codify accordingly with amendments that can <br />produce units. Mr. Lehrer would like any comments or questions the Board may have so the AHC Chair <br />can review prior to the meeting. The topical areas as sub bullets are just ideas. <br />- Goals and Policies in the Housing Production Plan <br />Mashpee Commons <br />Workforce Housing <br />Inclusionary Zoning <br />Mr. Balzarini said there needs to be better paying jobs. Most of the jobs on Cape Cod are retail. Can <br />that be worked into affordable housing? They kind of go together. <br />Mr. Lehrer stated the nature of the housing market today is directly linked. We have inadequately <br />provided housing types and the broad workforce and family age groups have left Cape Cod. The nature <br />of the market today is much more accessible to those who have been able to accumulate wealth over <br />the course of their lifetime. That's why we are seeing the shifts we have. We can mitigate, the problem <br />needs to be define before we solve the problem. <br />Mr. Hansen asked if he can be given a definition of what inclusionary zoning means. <br />Mr. Lehrer explained inclusionary zoning is supposed to incentivize private development to produce <br />deed restricted affordable units. The purpose is creating a broader cross section of income levels of <br />people living in your town. We see this in Ch. 40B. You can get waivers in the Zoning Bylaw in <br />exchange for 25% of those units being deed restricted or affordable. We can build something like that <br />into our zoning at some point. We have some inclusionary. It is mostly specific to the cluster <br />subdivisions bylaw. We incentivize the inclusion of 10% of the building lots created to be deed <br />restricted affordable. If you provide two, you get an extra building lot. There are little sub dividable lands <br />left across Mashpee and very little parcels that can achieve 10 building lots. The Memo was relative to <br />zoning and what we are able to predict in terms of development. By increasing the number of tools <br />available to us, we can increase and produce more diverse housing that is obtainable at the market <br />level but also deed restricted or affordable for those who need that. Goals are to incentivize private <br />investment for types of housing that would be beneficial to the Community. Mr. Lehrer would like to <br />note he did submit an application to CPC for $25,000 to procure a consultant to assist with the update <br />