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understand the region's population changes as a result Report of the of the effects of COVID-19 and to help communities Cape Cod Commission plan to address their shifting needs. Commission staff worked with the Donahue Cape Cod Climate Initiative Institute at UMass Amherst and Center for Public In January 2021, the Commission approved Opinion at UMass Lowell to issue the surveys.Primary amendments to the Regional Policy Plan to include a data collected will assist policymakers to better climate mitigation goal, objectives, and associated understand the impacts of the pandemic on the region's technical guidance.The amendments support,advance, real estate market,economy and population. and contribute to the Commonwealth's interim and The project was funded with approximately long-term greenhouse gas reduction goals and $50,000 from the Department of Housing and initiatives,including a state-wide net zero carbon target Community Development's DLTA program, and more by 2050. The amendments also include a new than $60,000 in matching funds from the Cape Cod greenhouse gas emissions performance measure. Environmental Protection Fund. The Assembly of Delegates and Barnstable County Board of Regional Commissioners approved Route 151 funding advanced the amended RPP in February 2021. Phase 2 of the Mashpee Route 151 corridor reconstruction project was included in the FFY 2022- In April 2021,the draft Cape Cod Climate Action 2026 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) for Plan, developed in parallel with the RPP amendments, partial funding in FFY2026. The project was was released for public comment. The plan benefited programmed on the Cape Cod TIP after deliberation from development of a regional greenhouse gas and support from the Cape Cod Joint Transportation emissions inventory, an economic and fiscal impact Committee (JTC) and voted by the Cape Cod analysis, and a legal and policy analysis, among other Metropolitan Planning Organization(MPO).The Phase research and analysis.The result was a comprehensive 2 portion of the Route 151 project will extend from the plan providing actionable goals for Cape Cod. The Falmouth town line easterly to Old Barnstable Road Climate Action Plan is intended to foster collaborative, and includes new turn lanes,extension of the Route 151 targeted action to address climate change in measurable shared use path and installation of a new sidewalk ways. along the southern side. TIP funds were previously allocated for the Route 151 Phase 1, from Old The draft generated 66 public comments Barnstable Road easterly to Market Street, which is representing more than 500 individual points of expected to start in 2022. feedback. The Cape Cod Climate Action Plan, the region's first,was approved by the Commission in July The Cape Cod Commission provides staff and 2021. administrative support to both the MPO and JTC. Cape Cod and Islands Water Protection Fund Mashpee Commons Development Agreement The Cape Cod Commission provides The Commission acted favorably in March 2020 administrative and technical support to the Cape Cod on a Notice of Intent for a three-party Development and Islands Water Protection Fund, which committed Agreement submitted by applicant Mashpee Commons approximately $12.8 million in subsidies for Phase 1 Limited Partnership related to land of approximately of the Mashpee Resource Recovery Facility and Phase 186.67 acres in the Town of Mashpee owned by the 1 Collection System. The subsidies represent 25% of applicant. The Mashpee Select Board voted to the estimated project costs. withdraw from the three-party Development Agreement at its meeting on November 1, 2021. New and Second Homeowners surveys Mashpee Commons Limited Partnership submitted a Mashpee was among several towns that requested letter on December 17, 2021, withdrawing from, and an update to the regional second homeowner survey. effectively terminating, the Development Agreement New and second homeowners were surveyed to better process. 91