01/09/2002 ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS Decisions

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Mashpee Zoning Willowbend Development Corporation 2 Board of Appeals Golf Course Expansion V-02-16 Corporation and Golf Course Architect, represented the Petition. Mr. Besse stated that the Cape Cod Commission has approved the proposed golf course expansion. The proposal is currently under review by the Planning Board and Conservation Commission. Mr. Besse stated that the proposed golf course expansion was carefully designed to minimize its impact on the environment. However, the proposal would impinge on the required setback requirements in several small areas due to the shape of the land and the topography resulting from the impact of wetlands, which include cranberry bogs and rivers. Encroachment on the setback requirements is also due to the maintenance of safety buffers on the golf course. Mr. Besse said that Willowbend Development Corporation owns some of the land on which there would be encroachment from the setback requirements, specifically the Shoestring Bay area and Sampson's Mill Road. 'i Mr. Besse stated that some of the benefits from the proposal that the Town would enjoy include the following: • Construction of a 9-hole golf course as an alternative to development of 77 house lots. • Environmental enhancements, such as implementation of water conservation techniques, a$56,000 traffic mitigation and enhanced habitat areas. • Willowbend plans to sewer Cotuit Bay condominiums, which currently have Title V septic systems that impact Shoestring Bay, resulting in a reduction of nitrate loading into the bay. • Willowbend plans to donate 20 acres of environmentally sensitive open space along Noisy Hole and Meetinghouse Roads to the Town. Mr. Besse detailed some of the aspects of water conservation and said that all of the proposed new ponds and storage lakes would be permanently lined to eliminate any percolation. Sealants would be placed in all of the other existing lakes in Willowbend. All of the drainage through the fairways would be recirculated back into the ponds and into a transfer pump. All of the rain would be collected and recycled. The entire existing 18-hole golf course would be retrofitted with new more efficient sprinkler heads. Plans also call for installation of a new state-of-the-art system on the proposed golf course, which conserves water by irrigating the immediate areas with minimal water waste. Mr. McElhinny stated that the proposed water conservation techniques recycle back into the system any excess nutrients in the water running off the golf course during a storm. Mr. Besse enumerated the following areas requiring Variance relief from the setback requirements: SOUTHERN AREA: An area in the northeast of Project abutting Quinaquisset Avenue and as shown as the golf tee area of proposed hole#22. Variance relief from the buffer zone requested is from 50 feet to 10 feet. Additional landscape screen plantings shall be installed as mitigation for the reduced buffer. An area to the east of the Project and south of Quinaquisset Avenue in the area of proposed golf tees #19 (existing hole #10), tee #21, and proposed#20; there shall