07/06/2022 PLANNING BOARD Minutes

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r �`"nr�aawVu�� 7o'WYLe2 :: Pconniv Board 16 Great Neck RoadWorth Mashpee, Massachusetts 0264g now working virtually. She doesn't know if that militates against Boston being a city and Mashpee being a suburb, she doesn't think so. She also referenced figure 6, travel time to work. It shows that 40% of Mashpee residents spend 15-29 minutes traveling and 28% have less than 15 minute commute. 68% only travel a short distance, while 9% commute to Boston, fitting in the 60+ minute category. This data also tells her that Mashpee is not a suburb of Boston. Ms. Waygan thinks what she was trying to say regarding figure two, for every location there is an equal number of people coming into Mashpee as there are leaving Mashpee. She noted in section 9.2, the last sentence about impact of transportation systems on town resources, community character, and quality of life. She wants to add environmental quality. Road run off is a nutrient load on our waters. Section 9.3, she thinks they should add a list and description of the importance of ancient ways. There are people who still hunt and gather in Mashpee and ancient ways are part of that. The dirt road on Ashumet Road at the dead end, does the transportation chapter cover those dirt roads? They should be added as well. A lot of them are gated and a lot of people don't want them gated because they use them to get from one place to another in town. Mr. Balzarini stated those gates prevented a lot of dumping. Ms. Waygan commented the roads are large dirt roads people used to travel before the gates were installed. She would like to add crosswalks because a good crosswalk in town is rare. She thinks its important they are noted. She thinks there should be more data on CCRTA ridership for Mashpee residents. The next piece is the American Community Survey data on the volume of commuter traffic. Does the Mashpee senior center have a van service? That needs to be added. Medicaid is starting to offer wraparound services. They offer medical transport to appointments. They should find data on Uber and Lyft, she has heard some parents say it is cheaper to have a set account than to buy their child a car. She has seen people take Uber and Lyft home. She would like information about the CCC TIP (transportation improvement program) process. The Mashpee rotary study and route 28 study, a lot of people took interest, if they could get a summary from CCC about what studies they are doing and what that TIP process is. Some roads are on the TIP list, improvements need a 25% match. That's how you get state and federal money. The Mashpee rotary study ended up with a recommendation to retrofit the rotary, it would be nice to know what's going on with that. There is also a rotary proposal for Rt. 130 out here by the Town Hall. That would be good to mention. Section 933 references census maps. They could have a map of the census. Section 935, the major arterial roads are bulleted, the minor arterial roads should be as well. Under pedestrian and bicycle accommodations, first and second paragraph strike center of town. We affirmed in 2022 Town Meeting that the town center is Town Hall area. Under parking, she believes the state also owns that parking lot at South Cape Beach but also Mashpee Wakeby Pond boat ramp parking lot. Under parking, it talks about parking around the rotary, and Mashpee Commons, "Mashpee's commercial hub", strike that because there are other commercial areas in town and she wants a level playing field. Under issues to be dealt with, we have a transportation network gap at the rotary, with lots of open space north and south of the rotary, bike paths, walkways, and then when you get to the rotary it's dangerous trying to cross, and there are network gaps at rotary. There are transportation impacts on water and air quality. When you have grid 4