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Guest Commentary
Should the COMM district
residents pay the townfor an ease-
ment and conservation restriction
on land we already own?
An item, 2006-100 , that will
come before the council on the
next agenda,April6,asksthe town
to consider arestrictive easement
and conservation restriction on
the town-owned property known
as Darby in Osterville.
The town purchased this prop-
erty years ago for millions of
dollars. The purchase was made
before the land bank was in place
and it is one of the few pieces of
town-owned land that does not
have the conservation restric-
tions that are part of a land bank
purchase.
The prudential Committee
of COMM is requesting that
$133,000 of our taxes/fees be
paid to the town to maintain the
property in exchange for a wide
easement around what has been
identified as high-flow wells.
This would mean that the land
we paid millions of dollars to pur-
chase would now be restricted to
passive recreation.
These wells have been tested ,
and despite the high yield, the
levels of iron , manganese , and
arsenic meanthat the water would
have to be treated , costing the
residents of Centerville Osterville
and Marstons Mills millions of
dollars for each well.
The residents of the COMM
district would be paying for an
easement and conservation re-
striction on land we already own,
and eventually paying millions of
dollars to treat the well-waterthat
is not safe to drink, while losing
use and control of millions of dol-
lars worth of land.
Wewould not even be able to put
ball fields on this property.
Of course,this would also elimi-
nate any chance of this property
being used for workforce or af-
fordable housing. If the easement
and conservation restrictions
requested are granted , there will
not be enough remaining acreage
to build any housing.
This request is not necessary
as there is an agreement already
in place. (See a copy of the agree-
ment at janetjoakim.org)
This four-page agreement was
reached four years ago and was
signed by Town Manager John
Klimm; Lindsey Counsell as chair
of the Open Space Committee;
Tom Lynch, executive director
of the Barnstable Housing Au-
thority; Nester Silva, chair of the
COMM Prudential Committee;
Craig Crocker, COMM Water Su-
perintendent; and Bill Mclntyre ,
COMM Water Commissioner.
The agreement wasreached and
signed in response to a plan that
was in place to build affordable/
workforce housing on this prop-
erty. The housing plan designs
recognized the water issues and
included above-ground treatment
plans, 100-foot buffers and open-
space designs that respected the
property that would surround the
development.
As we consider this item next
week,the town is below its state-
mandated ten percent affordable
housing. This means that we are
subject to 40B developments that
bypass our own zoning with state
approval.
When the agreement wassigned,
the town had notified each village
and civic association that each
village would be required to sup-
ply 10 percent of their housing as
affordable. This way affordable
developments would be spread
out throughout the town and not
be concentrated in Hyannis.
The signed agreement states
that the town will grant conserva-
tion restrictions and easements
on this property when the village
of Osterville has reached its 10
percent affordable housing. The
agreement recognizes alterna-
tive plans to place affordable
housing in various places in the
village. These plans have not yet
come to fruition; there has been
little to no progress to date.
Although there are no im-
mediate plans to develop the
Osterville Darby property, we
cannot afford to take thisland out
of inventory. Wewould need act of
the state legislature to reverse the
restrictions we are being asked
to consider at the April 6 town
council meeting.
The residents of the villages
of Centerville , Osterville , and
Marstons Millswould pay the cost
of maintaining this unnecessary
easement.
Thiseasement/restriction would
mean this property purchased
by the residents of the town of
Barnstable with funds not con-
nected to land bank (the purchase
was made before the Land Bank
tax was in place) would become a
restricted wooded park that could
not be used for housing, or even
ball fields. While our other villages
are either experiencing an afford-
able housing development or have
land that has been identified as
potential 40B developments.
This responsibility should be
shared by all villages.
The signed agreement that
exists and was memorialized by
the Barnstable Town Council in
two resolutions passed on No-
vember 7, 2002 , should remain
in place. The restrictions being
requested by COMM prudential
committee and water commis-
sioners are not necessary and
should not be subject to council
approval.
Please contact your own coun-
cilors and ask him/her to vote no
on agenda item 2006-100.
Janet Joakim
Precinct 6 Councilor
Leah Curtis
Precinct 12 Councilor
Both are COMM residents
What you should
know about
Darby land
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trash afew feet from hisproperty line,
"and said the railroad told him some
driver must have dropped the trash
from his car. Problem is there is no
access road for a car here,"Campbell
said standing over apile of trash with
a rake. "Andres said the rail people
told him I shouldn't be on the railbed
because it's private property."
Bob Angel, supervisor of the trans-
fer station in Yarmouth, explained ,
"When the cars leave here heading for
SEMASSthe lids and cars are cleaned
off. Once in a while we may miss a
piece. But when the cars come back
from SEMASS a lot of times there is
trash hanging on and the covers are
not on right. We put the covers on
correctly.
"Look," Angel said, "some of the
cars are old and have holes in them,
rusted right through where things
could fall out."
He said Bay Colony should be think-
ing of replacing or repairingdamaged
cars and policing the track bed more
often in the pickup truck they have
outfitted with rail wheels.
Bernard Reagan, senior vice presi-
dent of marketing and sales, said
Angel had made him aware of the
problems and that the railroad was
ready to start a spring cleanup along
the tracks, which is a routine they
follow annually, he said.
Asto holes in the agingcars through
which some trash could escape , Rea-
gan said "we have an ongoing repair
routine. You'll notice some holes in
cars have already been plated over."
Ed Campbell has aroutine too. He'll
be watching for results.
CSI guy...
Putnams welcome a girl
Bryanna Elizabeth Putnam was born Feb. 24 at Jor-
dan Hospital in Plymouth to Laura and Keith Putnam of
Barnstable.
They're no wash ashores
Arriving at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis recently
were:
• Ava Jane Currier, born March 19 to Ryan Currier and
Erica Baxter of Marstons Mills
• Chase Baenziger, born March 14 to Matthew Baenziger
and Amanda Gastol of Osterville
• Christopher Michael Cox , born March 17 to Thomas
and Janine Cox of Hyannis
• Hadley Jardin Rebelo , born March 19 to Kevin Rebelo
and Finlay Quintal of Centerville
• Jared Charles Cole, born March 17 to Bruce and Mar-
garet Cole of Osterville
• Lindsay Kehaulani Payne, born March 13 to Rayond
and Christine Payne of Hyannis
• Tasheena Nicole Williams , born March 17 to Carlton
and Donna Williams of Hyannis
Zonfrelli is a great-grandpa
John Zonfrelli of Centerville has some good news: he's
the great-grandfather of Andrew James Crapo, born.March
3 at Jordan Hospital in Plymouth to Erin and Stephen Crapo
of Falmouth.
Cape Cod Academy honors
Local students on the honor roll at Cape Cod Academy
for the second trimester include the following (H = High
honors):
Barnstable: Julia Dunning, Matthew Koehler (H), Matthew
LaPine (H), Stacy Marshall (H), Christian Rees (H), Jonathan
Zelman (H), and Kaitlin Zelman (H).
Centerville: Kiley Colombo , Sarah McAteer (H), Connor
McCann (H), Sarah McCaskey (H), Hugh Sagona, Whitney
Shapiro (H), and Meredith Wallace.
Cotuit: Elizabeth Finkelman (H), Drew Frayre,Jeffrey LeB-
lanc, Samuel Marvin, Taylor Marvin, Samantha Melchiono
(H), and Maxwell Sullivan (H).
Hyannis: Komel Chaudhry.
Hyannisport: Paul Barber (H).
Marstons Mills: Sarah Albano (H), Rebecca Bertrand (H),
Samantha Drago (H), Kendra Hickman , Anne Mumford (H),
Christine Mumford (H), Daniel Sidman (H), Chelsea Summer-
sail, Hannah Van Sciver (H), and Sarah Van Sciver (H).
Osterville: Devon Bentivegna (H), Kathryn Burleson (H).
Rachael Cardarelli, Taylor Garrett , Annaliese Heussler (H),
Eliza Heussler (H), Nicole Madonna (H), Nicholas Monto
(H), Catherine Pajolek , Louisa Pajolek (H), Michael Pajolek ,
Genevieve Puleo (H), Ming Rogers (H), Mary Schaller (H),
Christina Smith (H), Jacqueline Smith, Michael Starr (H)
and Graham Welch (H).
West Barnstable: Lauren Fackler (H), Sean Hegarty (H),
Nikolas Nugnes, and Chelsea Smith (H).
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TOUCH AND GO - As the sun burned orange last Friday, planes at Cape Cod Airfield in Marstons Mills ran a series of 'touch-
and-go" landings over the grass strip.
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