Community Preservation
Committee
Judge Welsh Hearing Room
July 26, 2005
9:00 a.m.
Members Present: Elaine Anderson, Mona Anderson (arr. 9:12a), Eric Dray, Nancy Jacobsen, and Winthrop Smith.
Members
Absent: Wm. Dougal and T. Hazel (both excused)
Stephen Milkewicz
(unexcused)
The
meeting was called to order at 9:14 a.m.
Keith
Bergman (KAB) told the Committee that the Board of Selectmen (BoS) would be interested in having a joint
meeting with the Community Preservation Committee to discuss, among other
things, “what is your vision?”, etc.
The BoS has a group of things on their plates. They have actually named a property that they would like for
affordable housing; it’s the Duarte parking lot that has a value of $6M. Cheryl Andrews is pushing for the
acquisition of this property. She reportedly
would like to see people living there and not just a parking lot. KAB ruminated that then you have to find
outlying areas for people to park. KAB
said you have that particular property you may look at and also the Cumberland
Farm property on Shankpainter Rd. The
problem with the Cumberland Farm property is that there is a claim brought by
Cape Cod Oil about a border dispute.
Cape Cod Oil encroaches on town property since the Route 6 right-of-way
now belongs to the Town. Maybe a
trade-off will prove to be a bargaining chip.
Another idea…… the BoS have approached
the Wastewater plant and they have a plan that could possibly lead to
sewerage for a limited group on Shankpainter.
Conversation was then focused on
Chuck Silva’s proposal for Laundromat.
KAB continued, “If we were to accept that proposal – it would have to
have a special connection for Penny’s and that could be happening
quickly.” The other property is 951
Commercial Street which the town meeting has agreed to hand over to Affordable
Housing.
Margaret
Bergman was very interested in Laura’s presentation. Patrick Manning championed the Cumberland Farm property. He said the negotiations with Cumberland are
ongoing. As far as the Beach Point
property is concerned, Patrick continued, we are wondering what specifically to
do with this property. It does take a while
to plan all of this.
Mona
Anderson, a real estate broker, said there are currently two large lots of land
that are for sale. These properties are
now available. One of them is Mobil
Services on Capt Bertie’s Way. Margaret
B. said that her group (Affordable Housing Task Force) doesn’t have the money.
KAB
– re: sewer, said, “We are going to have to be discriminatory about who gets
into the phase 2, i.e. if property cannot qualify for title 5 on site – then
they would be in phase 2.”
Laura
was asked to briefly explain the July 25th version of her CPC
Plan. Elaine Anderson said she would
like to expedite this and wants to contact Celine Gandolfo for the Open Space
reaction. She thinks that is obviously the
most incomplete spot in the plan. It
was agreed.
Eric
Dray will be providing his changes for Historic Preservation.
Win
Smith commented that on page 1 (under CPA Funding Requirements) it doesn’t
mention borrowing and – on page 2 (2nd line down) along is two
words; should read a long.
Elaine
said that at last night’s meeting, an additional category of 2/3 rental was
used. She felt that all groups should
start using the same terminology so that everyone would be on the same page.
Laura
also said the goals have been reworked based on the last meeting. One goal was to encourage mixed-income
housing.
Bottom
of pg 6 – comment on non-profit.
On
page 7 – the underlined words administered were explained.
On
page 8 – Laura discussed pre-development activities. She did research from other towns on this re: funds, etc. Ways to get these projects done were
explored such as financial feasibility.
Eric
Dray read over how he would like the Historic reworked. He will be giving his changes to Laura.
(Page 4.)
There
seemed to be as many ideas as there were people present. ED wanted to address the funding. MA wanted to see application
alphabetized. WS tried to explain away
new construction vs. rehabilitation.
KAB said to leave rehab section in, etc.
Discussion
on circles and boxes in the application form and it was decided that this
concern was not germane to the meat of form.
Above all, it has to be user friendly.
Under
#2 – eliminate the encourage box –
or reword it.
EA
commenting on #14, said an applicant would have to go thru the entire
application before they realize that they would need an attached
checklist. Should go to the
beginning. Or maybe - delete 14 all
together. Since maintenance is
something we cannot fund, maintenance
would then become # 13. EA also wants
some kind of a cover sheet for the application form.
Motion: Win Smith made a motion to adopt the plan
and application to guide applicants and ourselves – with the Open Space and the
Historic portions to be inserted. Mona
Anderson seconded the motion and it was approved 5-0-0.
Laura
had posters of a project that is about 70% done in Falmouth. It was started by taking pictures of places
on Main Street in Falmouth. The
pictures were taken to guide the architect – most buildings are flush with the
sidewalks with no setbacks.
Two
warehouse building had to be demolished and the architect wanted to follow the
streetscape as much as possible. The
first floor of one building has 10K square feet of commercial space to avoid
dealing with the Cape Cod Commission (CCC) -
Fifty-eight units are in Unit 1, forty-four apartments are in Unit 2 and
fourteen condos rentals. Unit 3 will
contain commercial space. There was a
lot of parking along with a community room and playgrounds.
Pictures
of the development showed a lot of
peaks and balconies to take away from the bulk of the property. They went back 15 feet from sidewalks with
two levels of landscaping. The overall
plan was attractive. CDC is the
architect and they received tax credits for their efforts. The complex is 35 feet tall and is within
zoning rules. It is located at 704 Main
St, Falmouth. (Our NEDA Care Campus will be 44 ft high) Floor plans of the units were shown to the
group. All units can be handicap
accessible since they have 36” wide
doors. All 58 are rental units. All are tax credit units – varying. Laura said the only way to afford buildings
like this is to do it with tax credits.
Laura
continued that the cost of land is higher here in Provincetown. She has an explanation of getting money to
do projects of this magnitude (but the details escape me!). She continued saying that the project came
together quickly for the non-profit arm developing it. The consultant who developed the plan got a
piece of the ownership rather than paying him for his services. The project started in Sept 03 and will be
finished in Nov 05. All things
considered - it was “real quick.”
Laura
encouraged the Committee to come to the Falmouth property for a walk-thru. KAB said he was hoping to get Cumbies to
sell their land for ½ of its value ($900K).
For tax credits you really need a single-access – one consultant said he
would like to do all of it for a piece of the action.
KAB
suggested a joint field trip to Falmouth.
The visit was tentatively scheduled for September 13th. Details will be finalized at a later date.
KAB further suggested that the Committee meet with the BoS at their August 8th
meeting to share their progress. KAB
will put the CPC on the August 8th agenda and perhaps arrange a time
(maybe 7:30 p.m.) to give the BoS the information that has been gleaned.
The
deadline for submissions will probably be moved to September 15 – or at the
most to October 1st. It was
decided that the group will have to meet very often to fulfill this guideline.
Motion: Eric Dray made a motion to approve the minutes as amended. Nancy Jacobsen seconded the motion and it was approved 5-0-0.
Win
Smith announced that Ken Weiss was a person who wants to access the funds to do
more affordable rentals. Ken had
evidently appeared before the Planning Board.
THE NEXT MEETING OF THE CPC WILL TAKE
PLACE ON AUGUST 9TH AT 9:00 A.M.
The
meeting adjourned at 10:35 a.m. by a unanimous vote.
Respectfully Submitted
E. Rogers Gaudiano
Approved
by: _____________________________ on ______________________
Elaine Anderson, Chair Date