05/08/2008 DESIGN REVIEW COMMITTEE Minutes

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Willowbend County Club continued Conclusion: • Applicant to provide Plans to the Committee showing elevations of all the buildings and garages they are going to put in. • Applicant said they are going back to the drawing board and look at making some adjustments and look at alternatives. • Depth of some of the buildings is 60 feet deep. Applicant will look at side-to-side, rather than just back- to-back approach. • 3-story buildings...Fire Department need very good truck access, which they do not have right now. • Applicants said they will return to the Committee at next meeting on May 22°d with revised Plans; Tom Fudala and Sheldon Hamblin offered to meet with applicant as they redraft the plans if that would be helpful. Mashpee Public Library 64 Steeple Street Representative—Catherine Laurent Catherine Laurent appeared as a representative of the Planning and Construction Committee and showed a site layout Plan of the proposed new Library, and also an elevation Plan. Catherine said they met preliminarily with the Fire Department. Walter Yarosh asked whether or not the sidewalk at the corner of the Library property on Steeple Street could be extended right up to the building walkway so that pedestrians won't have to cut across the lawn;they'll have a walkway. Catherine said she would ask the Committee to look at that. Information provided by Catherine to the Committee included the following.- • Applied to ZBA for 5 variances...4 for setback; 1 for building height. Tom Fudala suggested making the setback request for 35 feet. • Only access to the Library building will be off of Steeple Street. • Still meeting with Mashpee Commons to resolve some issues with them;Mashpee Commons has design and site approval. • Steeple Street will be widened and they will be doing improvements to the street. The Committee suggested that Mashpee Commons extend the sidewalk from the Medical Building all the way up to Job's Fishing Road. • Mashpee Commons and Town will look at planning landscaping on Route 151 from Job's Fishing Road down to Commons. • Parking spaces are 9 feet wide. Tom Fudala suggested making them 9-1/2 feet wide. Catherine will have parking spaces changed to the 9-1/2 feet width. • Committee asked that the sidewalk be connected from the rear parking lot to the front of the building on the south side elevation adjacent to the children's exterior play area. • Will have bike rank and this will be shown on landscape plan. • Children's area outside will be fenced. • Cupola will probably be an alternate since the cost will be about$50,000, Walter Yarosh suggested that maybe someone will donate it. • Designed the building as energy efficient as possible. . • Going out to bid the end of July or beginning of August. Building will be tied into Mashpee Commons' sewer system. Mashpee Commons will provide street lighting on Steeple Street. 2