08/19/1983 GROWTH STUDY COMMITTEE Minutes

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-=f Developers rge' flexibility ' Mashpeee plans By ANNE HYDE requirement, lic hearing prior to town meeting. i Special Writer The requirement for a buffer zone Attorney Morris Kirsner,who owns along the Mashpee and Quashnet two parcels near Route 28,now zoned MASHPEE—Real estate develop-ers Rivers, meanwhile, would be in- for commercial use,said the changes a reception last night gave only i lukewarm creased from 100 to 300 feet under the would leave one large landholder in f reception d proposed zoning changes proposed changes. control of all commercial develop:, that would create a limited village The changes generally attempt to ment in Mashpee. "This a total i - i shopping district here while restrict- limit developments of certain types equity,"said Kirsner. "It will create the development in the areas beyond to specific areas of town. An office a monopoly and discourage free en- district,village center. district, for instance, would be al- terprise,"he said. The developers called instead for a lowed in part of the commerically The remarks were in reference to village center concept that would ap- zoned land around New Seabury New Seabury Corp., which owns ply equally to all areas now zoned rotary. most of the land around the rotary commercially under the town's by Real estate broker George Benway that would be ,suitable for develop- laws. And most suggested that unde- said he can go along with the village ment under the proposed changes. sirable development could be con- concept as long as it applies to all Only six or seven landowners have trolled by an architectural review commercially zoned property in property in the proposed commercial ' board that would decide what types i Mashpee. Competition, in the final village district.New Seabury Corp,is of commercial properties should and 9 analysis, is in the best interests of by far the largest land holder.. shouldn't be developed in those Mashpee,"said Benway.' The village center concept is de- areas. "You don't want to zone your signed to prevent the kind of strip The zoning changes, the work of into a corner," said Buff Chace, development that has run wild in the town's growth policy committee, president of Fields Point Inc. at the towns like Yarmouth,Terry said. are still in the preliminary stages New Seabury Shopping Center. He "Mashpee, visually, can provide and would require approval by town urged town planners to be flexible, something that's very attractive that voters before they could go into conceding that his own firm's plans no other town is doing," said Select effect. to expand development In the shop- man B. Jean Thomas, who was the 7 The changes would create a so- ping area would require more land prime mover behind the creation of called village shopping district than is allowed under the proposed the growth policy committee here. where•intensive commercial devel- changes. "Landowners seem willing to work opmentcould take place primarily Committee chairman Richard.Ter- toward a.village concept, but they at the New Seabury rotary. In this ry said the committee will meet want the freedom to do what they commercially zoned area, there again with their outside consultant, .want with their own property.I don't would be new restrictions on signs Brian Barber of Interchange Inc., want a monopoly: . , but if we are to,. and parking,but the requirement for Feb. 7 to review some of the land- lose the whale thing (the village cen-_, 100-foot road frontage would be re- woners'concerns.He said any zoning ter concept) I_would feel quite bad laxed to a minimum 40-foot buffer changes would require a formal pub- ly,"she said.