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16 Great Neck Road North <br />.wlashpee, Massachusetts 02649 <br />Goal NR1: Ensure Mashpee's wildlife and wildlife habitats, both terrestrial and aquatic, are of <br />highest quality and thriving in an unpolluted clean environment. <br />Ms. Waygan noted thriving in harmony with the built environment forth rest of time is a policy. <br />She elaborated we want to ensure we have high quality, clean, and unpolluted habitats for our <br />wildlife. She wants a policy to say the built environment doesn't degrade our natural <br />environment. It might be climate change, it won't always be the built environment if we were to <br />narrow the goal. Mr. Lehrer wilIcon template the impacts of the built environment. There was a <br />lot of discussion re: how this goal was worded. <br />Mr. Oakley added there is only one real goal and that is our Natural Resources are the best <br />they can be. Ms. Waygan agreed to add that as a goal, in addition to what is also here, the <br />environment is of highest quality and unpolluted. <br />Goal NR2: Neverwill any Mashpee resident, community member, or visitor not be able to <br />enjoy equitable access to pristine natural resources in Mashpee such as drinking water, <br />healthy surface water bodies, estuaries, beaches, ancient and public ways to water. <br />Goal NR3: Be true stewards of the land alongside the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe through <br />shared cultural, environmental, and social prosperity. <br />Mr. Lehrer inquired about coastal resiliency in the sustainability chapter being a redundancy <br />and if that adds or retracts value. <br />Vice- Chair handed the meeting over to Clerk Mike Richardson at 6:20p.m. <br />Mr. Lehrerwould like to make this chapter less water quality focused and then reference the <br />chapter on water quality. He definitely will not be repeating actions. <br />Policy NR1: Mr. Lehrer specifically related this policy to reconcile the original goal which is the <br />reality that we live here. He would suggestadding references to the builtenvironmentand high <br />quality and unpolluted to this policy. <br />Mr. Lehrerwants to limit discussion specific to waterquality actions and focusing on other <br />natural resources like beaches, wetlands, dunes, shellfish, fisheries, freshwater marshes, <br />saltwater marshes, vernal pools, etc. He preferwater quality section be referenced and make <br />this section less water focused. <br />n <br />