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Warehouses...
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linear, gently sloping channel used to convey
water. Swales direct storm water to a storm
seweror road ditchto keep water from flowing
onto neighboring properties or collecting in
one place to cause surface flooding.
Thisproject received Cape Cod Commission
approval as a DRI hardship-exempt project
on June 29 and has been two years seekingall
necessary permits.
It involves leasing 3.09 acres of an already
disturbed 12.80-acre site for the 21,000-
square-foot building, outdoor storage with
associated parking, landscaping and related
infrastructure.
John Shields of JDJ said after the meeting
he expected construction could beginwithina
fewmonths.Hesaidthe warehouseinitiallywas
proposed tohouse aspecificplumbing supply
business but that after two years between ini-
tiatingthe proposal and nearingconstruction,
that deal had gone by the wayside.
The building is now being constructed on
speculation, but Shields said there is such a
demandfor showroom/warehousingspacethat
he is not concerned about finding a tenant.
Planning ...
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process instead of using the
state's Chapter 40B process,
which can be lengthy, costly
and often adversarial.
The percentage of required
affordable units, proposed
initially at 40 percent , has
been and continues to be a
sticking point in gaining the
necessary support from the
town council.
"I think we're looking at a
stubborn situation here, and
it's too bad it's come down
to this, a push-pull," board
member David Munsell said,
wishing Shuman luck in his
negotiations.
"We are going to do this in
the spirit of compromise in
the hope that we can get this
passed," Shuman said, later
adding, "We need one more
councilor. I feel that we are
bendingover backwardsinthe
spirit of compromise."
Board member Ray Lang
said that if the board is going
to establish an affordable/
market ratio specific to the
number of overallunits,there
should not be an opportunity
to waive it.
Shuman counseled against
such an approach,sayingthat
flexibility needs to be part of
the final package.
Planning board members
alsounderstandhow closethe
vote is,judging the councilto
be one vote away from pass-
ingthe package.That wasthe
case when it was last put to a
full councilvote and defeated
inDecember 2005.The zoning
amendment requires a two-
thirds positive vote, or nine
members. At the 2005 meet-
ing, Cotuit CouncilorRichard
Barry told his colleagues who
supported the measure that
he was uncomfortable with
the lack of reference to the
villageplans contained inthe
local comprehensive plan.
"[I]f we can identify the
parcels and have them stated
by each village association ...
you have myvote,"Barry said
last December.
Barry reiterated that
stance in a brief interview
this week.
The planningboard'slatest
version includes language
that village plans "shall be"
considered in the review of
developments filed under
AHOD. That's as strong as
the board is willing to go, as
village plans are unable to
anticipate land ownership
and availabilityfor the period
they're intended to cover.
That is an objection shared
by membersofthe Barnstable
Housing Committee.
Unspokenbutrelevantisthe
statusofthe local comprehen-
siveplanitself.Thevillageplans
ofrecord were approved bythe
councilin1997and drafted per-
hapstwoyearsprior.Although
new plans are ready to go for
all villages, they need to be
approved aspart oftherevised
localcomprehensiveplan,now
in line to be presented to the
councilsometimein 2007.The
planning board has some con-
trol over the timingof that, as
asubcommitteeofthe board is
in charge of the redraft.
Board member Roy Fogel-
gren offered an observation
about the nature of the con-
cerns rising from members of
the councilwithrespect to the
level of affordability. Noting
that councilors have the abil-
ity to amend the ordinance as
they see fit, Folgelgren said if
no amendment to lower the
affordable percentage is of-
fered,"thenthere'ssomeother
reason they are against it. It's
a smokescreen."
The upper threshold is one
of practicality.At 30 units or
more, a developer would be
obliged to file with the Cape
Cod Commission for review
as a development of regional
impact. To avoid such review,
projects of that size are more
apt to be filed under Chapter
40B, the state's affordable
housing incentive law, which
is exempt from commission
review.
The AHOD concept is not
tied to any one area of town,
but could be applied to resi-
dential areas across town.
Developers would identify a
parcel, draft a concept plan
and apply to the town council
to have the AHOD provisions
applied. Gainingthe designa-
tion would be step one, with
amore comprehensive review
of the proposal's specifics to
follow through a planning
board-governed process.
TECH FILES...
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examplethisyear 60teachers
in the Nauset district, which
encompasses Orleans, East-
ham,Wellfleet,and Brewster,
either went through acourse
Intel runs for educators or
were trained by the master
teachers who went through
it. Probably pretty safe to
guess that chip giant Intel
knows alittle bit about how
to implement technology,
and it's exciting to know
that some of that knowledge
is here amongst us too.
Also turns out that the
Commonwealth has this
pretty cool system called
MassOne,whichisan on-line
system available to every
public school educator in
the state and every student
in grade K-12. MassOne has
several components.
First is the virtual hard
drive , which is a way of
storing information so that
it can be accessed from any
location. This means that a
teacher can see the same
information no matter which
classroom he or she is in. It
means that a student can
get to his or her work in
progress from wherever he
or she is, as long as there is
Internet access.
Think about that -school
work in progress is portable
in avirtualand digital sort of
way.Student notebooks and
progress notes are shareable
and can follow teacher or
students as needed. No mis-
placed paper notes. No need
to be tied to a single com-
puter in a single location.
For itinerant teachers who
work with kids in multiple
schools,this is an incredible
productivity tool.
Another component of
MassOne is a workgroup
function. A teacher can cre-
ate a virtual hard drive for
a whole classroom, put in a
digital drop box, document
links, and all things we in
the business world use to
work collaboratively. Kids
can read documents, de-
liver assignments,and share
work through this virtual
workspace.
Then there are a couple of
outreach tools. The system
incorporates a survey tool
that can be used for things
like formative assessment,
or as a parent survey.
Many of the schools here,
including Nauset , have an
on-line homework area. This
particular example has been
on-line for four years. With
a mouse click students can
go in and find their teacher
or teachers and print and
view homework. There 's
also a place for elementary
teachers to leave notes for
parents. And a parent (or
student) can create a "my
homework: page with only
that student'steachers on it.
Sort of like the "Daily Me,"
but for schoolwork.
Technology is incorpo-
rated into lesson plans and
projects as well, both as an
instructional tool for teach-
ers and as alearning tool for
students:
How do you use Power
Point to present a topic?
What turns Excel into a
learning tool for a science
class ? How do you develop
critical thinking skills that
can be applied to the content
youfind on the Web and how
do you teach your students
to understand that just be-
cause it is out there doesn 't
necessarily mean it is true
and accurate?
Everyone's lives are suf-
fused with technology ap-
plications and those ap-
plications also apply within
the school setting. Part of
education is teaching kids
how to thrive in the world.
That means understanding
howto use the elementsthat
are part of everyday life.
It doesn 't necessarily
mean knowing extreme de-
tails about which button
to press - but it does mean
understanding what these
tools can do for you and
how to build the base un-
derstanding for learning to
use them.
It all comes back to ap-
plications again. It's not so
much having the tools but
being able to see the pos-
sibility of what you can do
with all these tools.
For example, podcasting
is cool, but what does it
mean to me? Or to me as a
teacher? That was a ques-
tion that Schrock wanted to
address, so she created ase-
ries of podcasts about edu-
cation (www.nausetschools.
org/podcasts,htm) that both
showed and explained the
technology and delivered
some context-relevant ex-
amples of it.
That'sthe daily challenge
we all face. What can this
tool do for me and how can
I show someone else what it
means for them? We face it
in our businesses and in our
classrooms.
And, we face it whether
that tool is a software pack-
age, a kitchen knife, or a
printed dictionary. Educa-
tion is about passing on
specifi c knowledge , yes!
But perhaps more impor-
tantly it is about passing
on knowledge about how to
learn, how to use the tools
around usto learn and reach
our goals.
Microsoft High School is
interesting and I know I'll
certainly be watching it.
But there are lots of other
ways to reach the goal of
education and many ways
to embrace technology as
part of it. And we're doing
many of those right here,
right now.
Look at your schools -and
worry less about what hard-
ware they have or how they
look next to a big experi-
mentalinner-city school and
consider more how they are
using everything at their
disposalfor reachingthe real
goal, developing smart kids
who know how to create the
world of tomorrow.
The writer is executive director ot
the Cape Cod Technology Council.
Contact her at tmartin@capetech.
com or 508-375-4190.
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