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April 4, 2005 Master Plan Advisory Committee (MPAC) Meeting
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Date: April 4, 2005
Time: 7:30 pm
Place: Town Hall Conference Room
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Attendees: George Katsoufis, John Sasso, Dick Howard, Peter Smargon, Jonathan Barnes,
Virginia Adams, Chris Reilly, Susan DeMatteo
Agenda & Discussion
The committee reviewed the status of comments from last meeting as well as the Housing
Chapter.
- Natural and Cultural Resources: Susan will incorporate comments and then distribute to
the committee
- Open Space and Recreation: Discussed comments, agreed to add in table George
provided, modified one of the comments (b-iii) to read as follows "The Town has
continued to negotiate for private developer contributions to open space and recreation
facilities as deemed appropriate on a project by project basis", and agreed to reword
comment (b-v) to reflect the demographics that the shift was toward more younger
children, not necessarily younger families.
- Transportation: Chris and George agreed to work with the town to update the average
daily traffic counts that have been collected over the last few years either by the town
directly or via developer traffic studies (and compare it to the data in the previous report).
We also agreed to add a statement about commuter parking in the local downtown
neighborhoods.
- Economic Development: George agreed to add wording to finding C to address the issue
of changing economic landscape and the need to create a Economic Development
Commission.
General Format: The committee agreed that findings should be included in the body of
each chapter (not as a separate section at the end) but also segregated so that they are
visually queued. Authors agreed to review their sections to ensure this was the case.
- Housing: Although not reviewed last week, the committee reviewed the chapter this
week and essentially agreed that since this chapter was almost exactly as taken from the
recent Community Development plan, there were no major issues with the chapter. The
only question raised was how to capture what is stated in the Analysis and tie it to the
goals of the chapter.
The committee agreed to cancel the April 19`h MPAC. Instead, the CPDC meeting next week
(April 11) would include a MPAC working session so that we can focus on the two remain
chapters: (1) Character and Identity and (2) Services and Facilities.
Next MPAC Meeting
Monday, May 16h
Topic: Goal Prioritization of remaining chapters
All meetings are scheduled to begin at 7:30pm in the Town Hall Conference Room