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Mashpee Town Meeting
Mon, Oct 21
|Mashpee High School
Mashpee can create more year-round housing by supporting a better accessory dwelling bylaw. But we need voters in town to show up to Fall Town Meeting to ensure it gets the 2/3 majority vote needed to pass!
Time & Location
Oct 21, 2019, 7:00 PM
Mashpee High School, 500 Old Barnstable Rd, Mashpee, MA 02649
About the event
At the Mashpee Fall Town Meeting on October 21st, the town will vote to make it easier for our young workforce and seniors to live in town by expanding the ability to create more year-round housing.
Articles 26, 27, & 28 on the warrant is a better Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) bylaw, which has been carefully crafted to allow more housing to be built for year-rounders without developing more land and overburdening our town.
Mashpee has a drastic shortage of 1-2 bedroom units that the backbone of our economy need in order to afford to live here. ADUs will increase the supply of available market rate units without developing more land, harming water quality, or ruining the character of our community.
At the same time, baby boomers are increasingly trying to age-in-place. Staying in the homes they’ve lived in for decades can be made easier by the addition of an ADU…