Yarmouth Planning Board pushes short-term rental bylaw toward a second draft while raising alarm over state zoning legislation.
Design Review Committee approves Town Fair Tire expansion comments. The Yarmouth DRC voted 3-0 to accept its formal comments on a proposed 6,576-square-foot tire sales and installation facility at 484 Station Avenue in South Yarmouth, advancing the project to Site Plan Review. Applicant
Yarmouth Design Review Committee clears Town Fair Tire's proposed Lodger Plaza expansion in a unanimous 3-0 vote.
Yarmouth Design Review Committee unanimously backs 6,700-square-foot Town Fair Tire addition at Lodger Plaza.
Yarmouth golf courses add 20 members, boost revenues. The Golf Enterprise Committee met May 18 to hear spring updates from Chair Ellen Chapman and golf operations staff. Total membership climbed to 1,102, an increase of 20 from 2025, with year-to-date revenues $150,000 higher than prior year.
Yarmouth Board of Health approves six plastic waivers for local restaurants and retailers. Mary Craig moved to extend Andrea's West Yarmouth Fish and Lobster and Lil' Caboose through October 31, 2026, while The Loft Restaurant and The Spice Boss Restaurant received extensions through December.
Yarmouth Board of Health voted unanimously to recommend a hazardous materials storage variance for SRS Building Products and granted plastic-reduction waivers to eight food-service businesses at its May 18 meeting.
Yarmouth's Community and Economic Development Committee convened for the first time under its newly reconstituted membership on May 18, electing Director of Community Development Megan Eldridge as chair, Planning Board representative Will Rubenstein as vice chair, and holdover member Pete Malpass as
Yarmouth's dormant Community and Economic Development Committee reconvened for the first time in roughly two years at its May 18 inaugural meeting.
Yarmouth Zoning Board approves residential lobster sales permit after years of enforcement disputes.