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developed for each town on a platform created by the stakeholders to share feedback,best practices,areas of San Francisco-based firm Open Counter.Working with need, and other knowledge that will assist in its each town,zoning laws were translated to provide user- implementation in the region. friendly interfaces, allowing users to easily explore how town land use policies affect specific parcels. The study is a follow-up to the 2017 Housing Market Analysis prepared for the Commission,which The Commission contracted with OpenCounter looked at housing challenges at the town,sub-regional for a pilot program in these three contiguous towns. and county-wide levels. The platform includes all zoning districts and special overlay areas. Kickoff meetings were held for Eastham,Orleans and Falmouth in June 2018 and in Barnstable in capecodcommission.org/zoningportal December 2018,providing an overview of the project OpenGov and to engage residents with Union Studio, an architecture and community design firm from In partnership with participating towns, the Providence,RI. Commission launched and helps maintain a cloud- based transparency and performance management capecodcommission.org/crbd platform: OpenGov. Performance management Cape Cod Water Protection Collaborative software allows communities to track and measure financial accountability and set benchmarks. The In June 2017, The Barnstable County Board of public-facing side of the OpenGov platform also Regional Commissioners and Assembly of Delegates provides for transparency in how money is collected, approved an ordinance reestablishing the Cape Cod allocated and spent. It allows participating towns to Water Protection Collaborative. Under the ordinance, increase government accountability and improve the Cape Cod Commission was tasked to serve as access to important public information. administrative and technical staff to the Collaborative. The information-sharing platform helps towns The reformed Collaborative serves as the advisory simplify budget planning, improve internal data committee to the Section 208 Regional Water Quality management, and make important information easily Management Plan. In this role, the collaborative will accessible to residents, elected officials and review and advise on aspects of the 208 Plan and track administrators. towns as they move through implementation. The Collaborative maintains its role in providing regional capecodcommission.org/opengov support for water quality initiatives,including technical Housing Preference Study: Community Resiliency assistance, legislative recommendations and by Design establishment of the Regional Wastewater Management Plan,in conjunction with County staff. In collaboration with four Cape Cod communities — Barnstable, Eastham, Orleans and Falmouth — the Barnstable County Coastal Cape Cod Commission received funding from the Management Committee Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and The Barnstable County Coastal Management Environmental Affairs to develop model housing Committee(BCCMC)was established by the Board of designs for compact development in three different,but Regional Commissioners to provide guidance on the typical Cape Cod development patterns. The project protection,preservation,and use of Cape Cod's coastal focuses on compact design forms,allowing more units resource areas. with fewer infrastructure demands while maintaining the character of the surrounding community. The advisory group held its first meeting in The project is designed to engage the October 2018.The Cape Cod Commission provides staff development community through a Developers and administrative support for the committee. Among Roundtable, providing development proforma, and the broad areas of focus for the group are coastal resilience, fin and shellfish resources and habitats, developing a model concept form-based-code education and outreach, dredging, regional sediment regulation. Engaging practitioners in the visioning management,and marine and estuarine water quality. stages for compact development will allow 100