08/04/1982 GROWTH STUDY COMMITTEE Minutes

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OR017TH REVIEW COMMITTEE MINUTES - August 4, 1282 The Growth Review Committee met at the Mashpee Town Hall and the following members were present: Chairman Richard Terry,, Vice Chairman Sel. B. Jean Thomas, Earle Marsters, Mike Makunas, Harold Collins, Michele :atone, Richardson Jonas, Leonore Anderson and Charles Rowley. Bill Cassalack from Interchange was present. The meeting was called to order at 7s2O p.m. Mr. Terry said the Board had discussed last time a town center with businesses and apartments and asked Bill for feedback as to what he thought might make sense for yiashpee. Sele Thomas mentioned that the rotary is very monopolized in one direction. She felt if we could expand it out,, then we could offer some type of competition* Mr. Cassalack pointed out that this was one of the ultimate products of the 2-year program he had submitted to the Board. He also said it was possible to take up the center in this fiscal year. He felt the concept is a legitimate, tried and valid concept and it has precedence elsewhere so that we can present it for the general public so that they will not be intimidated. If you implement a concept like this where you have &11 the commercial ativities in walking distance from the major cluster of apartment buildings, it can be grouped and planned around the existing area that you have and you can use the standards already permanently established in urban design* You can say that the layout of these activities are supposed to be this 'way and in town this will require certain-pAroels be allocated for certain uses and so many acres will be necessary using the density criteria. In this way you can come up with a master plan at the project level which the long range plan will end up with. That master plan could be illustrated .in the sense that you can see it right on the map in three dimensions and then begin to implement the concept piece by, piece. But Yam, always have as a Yardstick a master Plan that YOU Can come up with an illustratUm.of hog you would like to have -,this s particular area developed. This master not only give you the Use, but also illustrates in thre-dimensional terry, the actual, location wher * n of e buildings are going to be add how they are going to be related to one another. You can take a district of Your toft, have a master plan made, a develo"pper looks at it and comes up with a concep$ for it,,, You then take each one -6f these projects at a time and then implewM it Over a giber of years. He felt the town center could be one of the first and highest priority projects of this long ram- planning process. In this one project you are showing t*O things. BY allocating an apartment area within the district of a town center concept, you are not only helping to plan the commercial ezpansion but also tying in the apartment design as well. Mr. Terry asked it it was legally necessary to have a master plan and if you would have to have one in place first before you could really start changing things. Mr. Cassalack said it would be desirable from his viewpoint as 0011001tantas it's &oA to have a picture in front of you first. 'Unless yoti have a big pictwe you will not have a frame of reference in judging the quolity of the deoinjoaft you are making* There are two ways to plan things. One ii *W preempt any eventual ' happening in, advance by thinking about it in advan" at doing-,something about it in advance. The second is to react to crisis overytijm the crisis arises,