Town of Eastham Local Comprehensive Plan

LCP Element	Recommendation	Responsible Board/Agent	Estimated Priority	Status
SOLID AND HAZARDOUS WASTE	Continue to work toward multi-town joint participation in the collection of hazardous waste with a goal of providing citizens the opportunity to drop off hazardous waste several times per year.	Recycling	A	ON
	continue to seek out alternatives to processing of solid waste including possible regional solutions.	Recycling	A	ON
CAPITAL FACILITIES AND INFRASTRUCTURE	Continue the practice of participating with others in investigation and data collection for sub surface water such as the USGS study.	BOH/ConCom/NRO	A	ON
	Continue to support local well water monitoring and data gathering programs such as the nitrate-testing program.	BOH/ConCom/NRO	A	ON
	Continue to press electric utility companies to underground service.	Planning Board	A	ON
	Consider development of certain town owned parcels as industrial land to foster local industrial development.	BOS/ Planning Board	A	ON
	Continue to work with the state to ensure improvements to Route 6	DPW/MHD	A	ON
ENERGY	Work with Cape Light Compact	Town Administrator	B	ON
	Regulate Energy Conservation Standards	Town Administrator	C	ON
	Provide Incentives for Energy Conservation	BOS	C	TBD
	Review Municipal Building for Energy Efficiency	BOS	C	ON

LCP Element	Recommendation	Responsible Board/Agent	Estimated Priority	Status
ENERGY	Study for Clean Alternative Fuels	Town Administrator	C	TBD
	Conduct Public Energy awareness education programs	Building Dept.	C	ON
	Analyze the possibility to reduce Number of Overhead Utility Lines	Planning Board	B	TBD
	Document cost Savings – Apply Toward Future Programs	Town Administrator	C	TBD
	Work With Home Builders Assoc.	Town Administrator	C	ON
	Establish Energy Committee	BOS	A	ON
HUMAN SERVICES	Encourage annual reporting of Human Service agencies to Town	HSC	A	ON
	Survey of needs for the formation of Children/Youth Council	BOS/HSC	A	TBD
	New and Strengthen and expand Day Care after-school programs	BOS/HSC	B	TBD
	Research and address the needs of the isolated elderly	COA	B	TBD
	Contract for medical care for uninsured	BOS	B	TBD
	Support for basic needs programs, i.e. food shelter	BOS	C	ON

LCP Element	Recommendation	Responsible Board/Agent	Estimated Priority	Status
LIBRARY	Complete an assessment of current space, assessing and analyzing current space. Staff should keep a record of requests for meeting space that Library can and cannot fulfill	Library	B	ON
	Develop a flexible meeting space that will accommodate at least 100 people	Library	C	ON
	Develop expanded space to house a variety of materials in different formats	Library	C	ON
	Continue cooperative efforts with the Eastham Historical Society and the Town of Eastham to provide improved access to, accommodation for, and the preservation of local historical and genealogical materials	Library/Historical Commission	A	ON
	Make new contacts with community organizations and services offering the library as a clearinghouse for information	Library	B	ON
	Attain a 90% rate of patrons surveyed being aware that information about the community resources is available at the library	Library	A	ON
	Conduct an assessment of current space and determine what changes can be made within existing space to improve the library environment	Library	A	ON
	Provide a variety of spaces to serve the age groups represented within the community, with a particular emphasis on young adults, home schooled and the physically/mentally challenged.	Library	C	TBD

LCP Element	Recommendation	Responsible Board/Agent	Estimated Priority	Status
LIBRARY	Develop a list of local and other educational institutions	Library	A	ON
	Identify the diverse community groups within the population	Library	A	ON
	Develop, distribute and analyze a survey to identify the needs and priorities of these community groups	Library	A	TBD
	Conduct annual evaluation of technological needs and resources	Library	A	ON
	Explore and utilize outreach opportunities via local media	Library	A	TBD
	Should become a primary venue for events, programs, and current topics.	Library	C	ON
AFFORDABLE HOUSING	Promote/adopt growth management bylaws	Planning Board, Town Meeting	B	TBD
	Promote/Adopt Zoning Changes that allow mixed-use development	Planning Board, Town Meeting	B	ON
	Establish housing committee/partnership to develop policy	BOS,CPC	C	TBD
	Inventory public and private vacant land suitable for affordable housing	Housing committee/partnership.	B	TBD
	Donate or lease town-owned land to the Housing Authority	BOS	C	TBD

LCP Element	Recommendation	Responsible Board/Agent	Estimated Priority	Status
HERITAGE/ PRESERVATION	Continue to Inventory Historic Resources	Historic Commission ,CPC	B	ON
	Nominate Qualified Properties for Listing in National Register	Historic Commission, CPC	B	ON
	Establish a Scenic Roads By-law	Historic Commission/ Planning Board	B	TBD
	Encourage undergrounding existing utility lines	Historic Commission	C	TBD
	Adopt a By-law which limits land clearing and alteration of natural topography prior to development review.

* *The summer population is not regularly estimated by a standard method. It consists of several groups of people including year-round residents, summer residents, shorter term guests and more transient weekenders. Of these only the first group is regularly counted. Nonetheless the capacity to house people is limited. Assuming five people per house during a peak summer period plus 1000-1500 in motels the total population is about 25,000. The Eastham Police Department has another estimate of 30,000 from the Town Clerk’s office; thus the adjusted entry of 27,500. The actual summer population on any particular day would likely fluctuate around this number.

1 See Cape Cod Regional Policy Plan (2002) pp 23-25.

2 See Cape Cod Regional Policy Plan (2002) pp. 31-38 for performance standards.

3 Sobczak, B.and T. Cambareri. 1998. Water Resources on Outer Cape Cod. – Final report of the Lower Cape Water Management Task Force. Cape Cod Commission. Barnstable, MA.

4 “Small Volume Wells” are defined and classified by the Code of Massachusetts Regulations, 310 CMR 22.00 under the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) regulations as small community wells, non-transient/non-community wells, and transient non-community wells. These water systems are defined as “Public Water Systems” [310 CMR 22.02 (8)] if the system is used for the provision to the public of piped water for human consumption, if such a system has at least 15 service connections or regularly serves of at least 25 individuals for at least 60 days of the year.

5 Zoto, G.A. and T. Gallagher, eds. 1988. Cape Cod Aquifer Management Project Final Report. Boston, MA.

6 Whitman & Howard, Inc. 1970. Report on Proposed Water System: Eastham, Massachusetts. HUD Project no. P-Mass-3423P. Boston, MA.

7 Horsley & Whitten, Inc. 2001. Draft: Roach Property Land Use Management Plan. Sandwich, MA.

8 USGS. 1999. Proposal

9 Stearns & Wheler. 2009. Wastewater Management Planning Project Plan Evaluation Report.

10 Water Resources Advisory Board. 2001. Report on Eastham Water Screening Project 2001. Eastham, MA. Town Data collection 2002-2011.

11 Eastham Board of Health Regulation. 2001. Section F(1) and F(2): Environmentally Sensitive Area.

12 Eastham Board of Health Regulation. 1998. Section 4A: Rental of Premises to be used for Human Habitation.

13 See Cape Cod Regional Policy Plan (2002) pp. 36-41 for details of implementation actions.

14 Cape Cod Regional Policy Plan (2009) pp. 47

15 Cape Cod Regional Policy Plan (2009) pp. 50

16 2009 FEMA maps are now available for review and plan to be accepted in 2011.

17 Cape Cod Regional Policy Plan (2009) pp. 51-55

1⁶ See Cape Cod Regional Policy Plan (2002) pp 69-72 for details.

18 Cape Cod Regional Policy Plan,2002, pages 75-76 for details of performance standards

19 Cape Cod Regional Policy Plan (2002); pp. 83-84

20 Cape Cod Regional Policy Plan (2009) pp. 133-147

21 Cape Cod Regional Policy Plan (2002); pp. 101-108

22 A Service Response is what a library does for, or offers to, the public in an effort to meet a set of well-defined community needs. Planning for Results: The Guidebook, Himmel and Wilson, ALA, 1998, p.54

2³ Locally assessed values of single family homes in Eastham have also trended upward to an average of $486,500 in 2010.