Community Housing Council
Judge Welsh Hearing Room
Members Present: Elaine Anderson, Catherine Reno Brouillet,
Joe Carleo, William Dougal, and Molly Perdue.
Members absent: A.J.
Alon (excused)
Staff: David Gardner
The meeting was called to order at
Meeting Agenda
Minutes of October 1, 2007 meeting.
Motion: Approve the minutes of
the October 1st meeting as written.
Motion: Elaine Anderson Seconded:
C.
Motion: Approve the minutes of
the October 15th meeting as written.
Motion: Elaine Anderson Seconded:
Molly Perdue Vote: 5-0-0.
The RFP for Shankpainter is nearing completion and David G. felt that
the PCHC’s input would be very important. It will come before the Board of Selectmen (BoS) in late November so it was determined that David will
e-mail the RFP to all members of the Council as soon as it is ready; they will
have ample time to go over it in detail and then provide the necessary input.
Schedule for next meetings (will be planned for every other Monday in the future).
November 19th
December 3rd
December 17th
Discussion/Preparation for a joint meeting with the Planning Board at
Molly P. said that she had attended a Planning Board
meeting and was quite impressed with their consultant, Martha Hevenor, from the Cape Cod Commission. She would like advice from her on the
by-laws.
Elaine A. said that we have a Local Comprehensive Plan and
we also have an action plan which would allow us to implement affordable
housing. Bill D. said that you may need
a 40B to get the density you need at Shankpainter;
state law will supercede the housing plan. He
also said that he would like clarification on the mixed-use project from Planning
and to have an understanding on how the current by-law responds to a mixed use
affordable housing project.
Molly P. suggested that Bill was talking about “smart
growth” and it allows people to utilize stores as houses. Also,
ask the Planning Board how they are defining NEED.
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Planning Board
and
Community Housing Council
Judge Welsh Hearing Room
Members Present: Ellen Battaglini, Howard Burchman,
Joseph DeMartino, and Annie Howard.
Member Absent: Kevin Rich
Staff: Maxine
Notaro (arr
The joint meeting was called
to order at
Meeting Agenda
Discussion on Bylaws
Joe Carleo
opened the meeting by saying that we’ve been a Council since the begin-ning of July – started with Bissell – and we wanted to have
a joint meeting with your Board to get on the same page and to find out how we
interact.
Howard B. said that his group
has an upcoming issue with sub-division and also with medium, middle, (income levels) and stuff
like that. He then asked if something came out
of the
Joe C. they had some specific
questions and then Bill interjected, “Why don’t we talk about sub-divisions for
awhile. Bill continued, “Whether the Community
Housing Plan should be the enabling legislation when you look at
applications. We’re using the Local Comprehensive
Plan as a basis of our decisions and we’d like to have some reference on how
our recommendations will be received.
We’d like to have input and we do have an official role. Bill finally arrived at his specific question
– the legal relationship between the Community Housing Plan and a 40B – which
will override what?” Maxine arrived at this
point. What we have is the potential for
developers to come with an application and saying they want to do a 40B and
they have 400 people on the waiting list and we can’t access the list. Where are the listed people located – and in that
way we’ll have a better handle on the Town’s need.
The discussion became cyclical
with final questions/comments being formulated, i.e.,
1.
The Planning Board would like to work with the
PCHC and vice-versa.
2.
Martha Hevenor will
be asked to a future joint meeting of the two entities.
3.
Can a list of potential people interested in
affordable housing be obtained
(no
names – just locations)
4.
How to ensure local preference in the by-laws.
5.
Positive definitions of median, medium, etc.
income levels.
6.
How can either or both groups create
incentives for developers.
7.
How to plug perceived loopholes in the
by-laws.
8.
An overlay district for the downtown area.
9.
Seasonal housing vs. year-round.
10.
How to streamline the application process.
When questions were raised by
the PCHC about the Zoning Board of Appeals’ (ZBA’s)
function, the Planning Board said that Planning is the group who orchestrates by-laws
and the ZBA enforces them.
Joe DeMartino
summarized the discussion by saying that – what didn’t work last year was that
we didn’t work together. We all have the
same goals but because of all of the dissension - nothing seemed to work
because a lot of the pieces were left out.
David G. said that if we are
going to ask Martha to come in – we should refine our questions and she will
need to focus within the by-laws themselves.
Some of the other issues mentioned (sewer regs,
etc.) are not going to help her help us.
Elaine A. said that the focus
is in going through the by-laws in their entirety so that we can see how they
were dissected and how they were projected.
Thus it was
decided............... both groups will plan
another meeting with Martha H. and then we’ll get town counsel’s advice to see
if Chapter 40B supercedes John Ryan’s plan.
Adjournment happened at 6:50
p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Evelyn
Gaudiano
Approved by
_____________________________ on ____________, 2007.
Joe Carleo, Chair