01/09/2002 ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS Decisions

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i j Mashpee Zoning Willowbend Development Corporation 3 Board of Appeals Golf Course Expansion V-02-16 be a small irrigation pump house structure allowed and the buffer may be reduced 1 to 25 feet from the road layout. A service access may be provided to the pump house and landscape screen plantings shall be provided to mitigate the reduction in the buffer. In all other areas along Quinaquisset Avenue, the 50-foot buffer has been increased to 100 feet and an approved subdivision road curb cut has been eliminated. An area along the eastern border of the Project, specifically the southern and eastern side of proposed golf hole #22 and the northwest side of proposed golf hole#23. Variance relief requested is to zero in this area since the subject land is undeveloped and predominately owned by Willowbend Development Corporation and/or the Town of Mashpee and is the subject of a land exchange to be executed within the next month or so. Said land shall then revert to predominately open space for the Project and provide greater than the required buffer. Proposed construction of a small 20x24-foot rest station located between proposed golf green#22 and tee#23, adjacent to lake#22 lies 90 feet from the Project boundary. Variance relief requested is from 200 feet to 90 feet. The rest station shall be landscaped, connected to the Willowbend Sewer Treatment Facility and may contain the water transfer pumps required for water conservation measures as dictated by the Cape Cod Commission. NORTHERN AREA: An area on the northern section of the Project along the southern side of Sampson's Mill Road, between the intersections of the Town ancient ways known as Simon's Road and Mashpee Neck Road, and specifically in the area of proposed golf tee#17. The area required for buffer is currently ComElectric easement and shall remain as undevelopable open space. Variance relief requested is from 50 feet to 10 feet. Said area shall be supplemented with landscape screen plantings. No comments were received e ved from abutters. VARIANCE CRITERIA Section 10 of Chapter 40A requiresuires that the permit granting authority must determine that there are circumstances relatingto the soil conditions shape r � p 0 topography which affect the subject lot and not the district in which it is located, that a literal enforcement of the By-laws would involve substantial hardship to the petitioner, that desirable relief may be granted without substantial detriment to the public good and without nullifying or substantially derogating from the intent or purpose of the by-law. SECTION 174-47.0 A minimum undisturbed buffer strip of fifty(50) feet in width shall be maintained between any area brushed or cleared for golf course or associated construction and any site boundary line or the street layout line of a public way, except for