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Mashpee Commons is sited near the geographical center of Mashpee, Massachusetts on Cape Cod. This area has been designated as the town's primary business district for over 30 years. In the mid-1980's, Buff Chace and Douglas Storrs created a plan to transform an existing strip shopping center into a traditional New England town center. This goal was a reaction to the "malling" of Cape Cod and reflected their sense of civic responsibility for appropriate development at the town's center.
For many years development throughout New England and specifically throughout Cape Cod has followed an automobile dependant, single use, environmentally taxing and aesthetically unacceptable form. Out of date land use regulations have focused new growth into land consuming, sprawl forms of residential and commercial development patterns. This has created socially challenged communities, devoid of all of the attributes of traditional neighborhoods and downtowns. New and long term residents alike, as well as visitors to the Cape have come to lament most new forms of growth while gravitating to the historical communities and their compact, higher density, mixed use patterns of development which make them so attractive
The Master Plan for the neighborhoods of Mashpee Commons and the existing neighborhoods that have been built to date serve to prove that the mistakes of the past do not have to be perpetuated in the future. In fact, Mashpee Commons has proven that new growth, involving a mix of uses in a compact form, within walking distance of one another, can in fact create a positive social and environmental influence upon the community and region in which it is located, while serving as a model for future growth on Cape Cod. The goal of the master plan is to provide a sustainable development that minimizes sprawl, relieves traffic, provides a positive fiscal impact and reduces or eliminates environmental impacts.
