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Equry 1ir y.r VY Town of Nashpee v 16 Great Jdeck Road Arth ry;;Av �+;,►�W BOARD OF APPEALS Alashpee, Massachusetts o2649 TO: Board of Selectmen _2 FROM: Edward M. Govoni Chairman Zoning Board of Appeals / DATE: March 9, 1998 RE: Land Use and Growth Management Plan This memo from the Zoning Board of Appeals is to state our opposition to a number of items in the Land Use section of the Comprehensive Plan. The Town of Mashpee has waited years for the Town Planner to compile a Comprehensive Plan k that would be in the best interest of the Town and its citizens. The Plan is disappointing in that it contains too much narrative -- it being the wish list of the author without regard to the consequential effects on all other Town Boards and Departments and citizens of Mashpee. If a show of hands was requested at Town Meeting of those who have completely read the Comprehensive Plan, how many hands would be raised? Then the next question should be how many understand it and its effects? Would any hands still be raised? I doubt it! Few of the Boards and Departments have had any input in the Plan or were they asked to. The Plan was put together by the Town Planner and approve by the Planning Board. I might ask at this point, who controls the Planning Board? It seems unconscionable that the Board of Selectmen or the Executive Secretary did not have the opportunity to thoroughly scrutinize the Plan and remove objectionable items from it (of which there are many) before the Plan was whisked off to the Cape Cod Commission unbeknown to the majority. Due to the many potential problems in various sections of the Comprehensive Plan, the Board of Appeals, at this time, would like to recommend that the Board of Selectmen do not put through the Comprehensive Plan for the May Town Meeting Warrant and that the Plan be recalled from the Cape Cod Commission for a thorough review to insure that the Comprehensive Plan that is adopted reflects the best interests of the Town of Mashpee and its citizens. The Zoning Board of Appeals is submitting a list of areas in the Land Use portion of the Comprehensive Plan that are objectionable. The transfer of power from the ZBA to the Planning Board, under various guises, is unacceptable. This is a dangerous precedent and the separation of powers of these Boards is a must if the Special Permit and Appeal process of the citizens of Mashpee is to be protected.