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MEMORANDUM
To: Design Review Committee
From: Kathy Williams, Town Planner
Date: October 14, 2022
Subject: Revitalization Overlay Architectural District (R.O.A.D) Application 2022-2
1272, 1276 & 1282 Route 28, South Yarmouth MA
Please find attached a new R.O.A.D. Application #2022-2 for a revised project at 1272, 1276 & 1282
Route 28 in South Yarmouth (Assessor Map 60, Parcels 130, 131& 132). The application was
submitted to the Planning Board on September 29, 2022 by Ekaterina & Family LLC (Jay Mart), and
Jay Imad, Trustee of the Cedars of Lebanon Trust.
The DRC had reviewed a previous ROAD Application #2022-1 back in May of 2022. The Applicants
have resubmitted the project to try to address comments received during the Planning Board’s Public
Hearing on this earlier application which was ultimately withdrawn without prejudice. The new plan
has been modified to include the parcel to the east (1272 Rte. 28) and reduces the size of the mixed-
use building from 6,560 sf to 4,000 sf, and the number of pumps from 5 to 4. The mixed-use building
would still have a convenience store and drive-thru on the first floor and four (4) residential
apartments on the second floor. Briefly, the modifications made include a smaller building fronting
along the road, parking to the side/rear of the structure, and wider buffers with more landscaping and
irrigation.
For ROAD projects, the Planning Board serves as the Design Review Authority and will be holding
their Public Hearing on November 16, 2022. The application is also distributed to the Design Review
Committee (DRC) for their input and comments which will be provided to the Planning Board. For
ROAD projects, the Planning Board will need to determine whether the project substantially adheres
to the Yarmouth Architectural and Site Design Standards (“Standards”). Should the Planning Board
make this determination, the Applicant would be able to seek relief from the Zoning Board of Appeals
through a Special Permit rather than requiring any Variances.
The attached application materials include a narrative from the Applicant outlining how they feel they
substantially adhere to the Standards for the Siting and Building Strategies. Also included in the
application materials are the 9/20/22 Site Plan Review Comment Sheet and modified project plans.
Some edits were made to the DRC plans to address SPR design comments including adding more
trees, eliminating the parking space in front of the building, eliminating the duplicate 5’ walkway in
front of the building and adding more landscape buffers, eliminating the benches along the drive-thru,
reduction in the pavement around the gas pumps allowing for the expansion of the eastern buffer,
elimination of the strip of 3’ sidewalk by the employee parking, relocation of the loading area closer to
the building, inclusion of 8’ wooden privacy fence and no-smoking signs by the playground. Still of
concern is the excessive level of footcandles under the canopy (as high as 77.5 footcandles) and
exceeding the limit of 0.05 footcandles adjacent to residential zones.
Planning
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