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Last 14 days

• Planning board strikes short-term rental ownership cap. Yarmouth's planning board revised its short-term rental bylaw after an owner argued a proposed ownership cap would devalue properties, sending the measure to the Select Board for an October 6 review ahead of November's Special Town Meeting.Yarmouth News
• Zoning board approves Habitat's six-home project. Yarmouth's Zoning Board weighed Habitat for Humanity's six-home Route 28 project after months of haggling over irrigation and trash-bin requirements, with the chairman insisting new development along the corridor look polished.Yarmouth News
• Library board adopts Leonard Room policy. Yarmouth library trustees adopted an amended Leonard Room policy and are rewriting after-hours access rules following a review of practices in 15 other towns, while a separate policy on when staff must call police over unclaimed children awaits further input.Yarmouth News
• Select board rejects paving of Summer Street. Yarmouth's Select Board held a nearly three-hour hearing on paving the last unpaved stretch of Summer Street, weighing close to 40 letters of opposition after a longtime area family warned paving could breach the terms of a 1961 beach-gift agreement.Yarmouth News
• Single sale limits Yarmouth's latest real estate snapshot. Yarmouth's deed records turned up just one recorded sale for the period, a thin data set that left Yarmouth News examining how much, or how little, a single transaction can say about the town's housing market.Yarmouth News
• Yarmouth wins $25 million federal grant for Route 28. The Yarmouth-Barnstable Route 28 Improvements Project, estimated to cost $62,413,490 in total, has been awarded a $25 million federal BUILD grant, the town announced on its website.Town of Yarmouth

Coming up

• Wed, Oct 7, 3:00 p.m.: Preservation panel revisits stalled funding requests. Yarmouth's Community Preservation Committee meets Wednesday from 3 to 5 p.m. at 1146 Route 28 in South Yarmouth, with the stalled $100,000 Peter Homer Park basketball court request and a Harwich affordable-housing ask still pending.Town of Yarmouth
• Wed, Oct 7, 3:00 p.m.: Preservation panel meets amid library's chimney request. Yarmouth's Community Preservation Committee meets Wednesday as it considers the public library's funding application to restore the building's historic chimneys.Town of Yarmouth
• Wed, Oct 7, 5:30 p.m.: Planning Board meets Wednesday evening. Yarmouth's Planning Board meets Wednesday from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at 1146 Route 28 in South Yarmouth.Town of Yarmouth
• Wed, Oct 7, 5:30 p.m.: Planning board to finalize rental bylaw recommendation. Yarmouth's planning board meets Wednesday expecting to issue its final recommendation on the revised short-term rental bylaw before it heads to November's Special Town Meeting.Town of Yarmouth
• Wed, Oct 7, 6:00 p.m.: Finance Committee meets Wednesday night. Yarmouth's Finance Committee meets Wednesday from 6 to 8 p.m. at 1146 Route 28 in South Yarmouth.Town of Yarmouth
• Thu, Oct 8, 10:00 a.m.: Historical Commission meets Thursday morning. Yarmouth's Historical Commission meets Thursday from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at 1146 Route 28 in South Yarmouth.Town of Yarmouth
• Thu, Oct 8, 5:30 p.m.: Waterways panel meets after dock permit denial. Yarmouth's Waterways and Shellfish Advisory Committee, which recommended against the River Street dock permit the Conservation Commission later denied, meets again Thursday.Town of Yarmouth
• Thu, Oct 8, 6:00 p.m.: Zoning board takes up Wicked Waves expansion. Yarmouth's Zoning Board of Appeals meets Thursday from 6 to 10 p.m. at 1146 Route 28 in South Yarmouth, where Wicked Waves Cape Cod's Aloha Bay water park expansion is expected to come up after design review comments were forwarded.Town of Yarmouth
• Thu, Oct 8, 6:00 p.m.: Zoning Board of Appeals meets Thursday evening. Yarmouth's Zoning Board of Appeals holds its regular meeting Thursday at Town Hall's lower level on Route 28.Town of Yarmouth

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