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s. <br />r� <br />7'own or - JW Aann,j?yj Boar <br />16 Great Neck Road.North <br />Nashpee, .Massachusetts 02649 <br />our built environment. To maximum non property tax funding sources for new municipal buildings and <br />facilities. To ensure that new development provides or contributes a fair share of the cost of municipal <br />infrastructure and services necessary to support it. To ensure that new development is located so as to <br />most efficiently utilize existing municipal infrastructure. To ensure that Mashpee's interests are fully <br />represented in the location and development of regional facilities. <br />Mr. Lehrer continued that there was an action defined to formalize a process to conduct a space needs <br />assessment for municipal buildings and facilities every five years. Currently, space needs assessments <br />are conducted on an as needed basis as opposed to every five years or on a set schedule. There was <br />recently space needs assessments for the Department of Natural Resources facilities and Department <br />of Public Works. There has not been a town wide space needs assessment in recent years. They <br />asked the DPW Director about school facilities because the 1998 LCP contemplates the infrastructure <br />of two additional school facilities. He inquired whether or not the decline of the school age population is <br />necessitating a merger of the schools at a future point or if the existing facilities are adequate. It was <br />told to him the existing population is enough to retain what is currently in place, there are no plans <br />currently to merge those facilities. <br />Mr. Richardson inquired if there has not been a town wide space needs assessment performed then <br />how are we able to determine the needs. <br />Mr. Lehrer is going to have a future conversation with the Superintendent and her staff to define what <br />their goals are as well as needs for future programming or changes in population. In the 1998 plan <br />there was a contemplation to expand public safety facilities, in particular the fire station on the north <br />side of town. We do have the fire substation on the south side. There was a goal of developing an <br />impact fee program. There is no existing impact fee program other than those made available to the <br />town by the Cape Cod Commission when taken in by the commission for a DRI that are then dispersed <br />to the town upon request by the Select Board. <br />Ms. Waygan asked what an impact fee program would look like. <br />Mr. Lehrer noted it would be some regulation in the zoning bylaw or general bylaws that would define <br />program for payments to the town for some program, like traffic for example. Some impact fees have to <br />be directly related to the costs associated with the development. They are often challenged and difficult <br />to enforce. He is unsure of a program that is municipally managed. The CCC is unique in that their <br />statutorily empowered to take impact fees. They are lawful, he has seen them done with water or sewer <br />districts where there is a cost of connecting. They would have to work closely with Town Counsel, as it <br />can get legally complicated. <br />Mr. Lehrer stated there was a goal of establishing a process for dealing with regional facilities to make <br />sure Mashpee's interests are best represented. An example of this would be a court house or regional <br />transportation facilities. He does not believe there is a process and no such facilities apply here as of <br />1998. The next goal gets into facilities recommendations and actual improvements. First was Town <br />8 <br />