Open Space Committee
Tuesday, September 7th 1999
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Present; Gordon Peabody, Barbara Sullivan, Hatty Walker Fitts, Robin Evans, Fred Berger, Celine Gandolfo (alternate)

Called to order by Gordon Peabody at 6:10 PM
also attending Felix from the Cape Cod Times

Approve minutes of August 3rd--motion made by Robin Evans, 2nd by Barbara Sullivan. Voted yes by Gordon Peabody, Barbara
Sullivan, Hatty Walker Fitts,
Robin Evans, Fred Berger, Celine Gandolfo

Acquisition Options: an ongoing item for this committee.

Types we can acquire:
a) Conservation Easement--prevents development , but property owners maintain some control.
b) Outright Gifts
c) Shared funding i.e.Chapter 91 lateral access limited in provincetown, but do need perpendicular access. Harbor Plan suggests
using Ch. 91 funds to get the perpendicular access. Priority item.
d) Grants--there are a variety available that could be used.
e) Easement Rights--can be purchased and deeded in perpetuity
f) Purchase Development Rights
g) Stewardship Program (eg. Pleasant Bay)
h) Open Space Funds (Landbank Funds)
i) Use Land for Affordable Housing

Use options discussion: look at use as impact and see as levels of impact.
Keep management simple
a) Deep Space: cannot even get to the land--use is for the animals
b) Visual Space: needs minimal access eg. along roadside or next to other open space parcels
c) direct Access--minimal impact--some de-vegetation--footpaths
d) moderate impact--set up for more people and more intense use of trails
e) maximum impact--vehicle parking, drinking fountains, bathrooms, etc.

Funding Options--see acquisition options above
Acquisition possibilities -- Look at possible small parcels for pocket parks; keep campgrounds as campgrounds; land in Truro for
water supply; land adjacent to Foss Woods and Railroad Right of way and behind the Holiday Inn and Duncan Lane Properties--
green Space Corridor; protect lands around water corridor

Hatty Walker Fitts look into possible small parcels for "pocket parks"--please come with suggestions for nest meeting

Management Plan development:
a) general management Impact Assessment addressing sensitivity of an area (surviving quotient) Need to learn how to "read" habitat
and hydrology.
b) set up parameters for usage and needs to make it possible

Management Plan for Shankpainter Pond
Celine has been speaking with Mark Robinson re: pathways system to park and replanting the road where it is cut in. Americorp will
assist.
We need a work session prior to next meeting. We will meet at Cumberland Farms at 5:00PM on the September 25th to walk the
Shankpainter Property.

Next meeting will be on September 28th 1999 at 6:00 PM

Adjourn at 7:50 PM

Acting Secretary: Hatty Walker Fitts