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BARNSTABLE LAND COURT REGISTRY
TOWN OF YARMOUTH
BOARD OF APPEALS
DECISION
October 24, 2024
5135
October 10, 2024
Agnoli Sign Co., Inc.
NL Grocery I DST
PROPERTY: 7 Long Pond Drive, South Yarmouth, MA
Map 50, Parcel 1 .
Zoning District: B-1
Document #1,422,567
Certificate #225593
MEMBERS PRESENT AND VOTING: Acting Chairman Jay Fraprie, Dick Martin,
Barbara Murphy and Anthony Panebianco
Notice of the hearing has been given by sending notice thereof to the Petitioner and all those
owners of property as required by law, and to the public by posting notice of the hearing and
publishing in The Cape Cod Times, the hearing opened and held on the date stated above.
The petitioner seeks a Special Permit per §303,13 in connection with proposed signage at the
Stop & Shop grocery store located at 55 Long Pond Drive, South Yarmouth, Massachusetts. The
property is located in the B-1 zoning district and is comprised of 603,306 square feet.
Christina Moreau, Account Executive, Agnoli Sign Co., Inc., represented the petitioner and
testified that the proposed signage changes would include: 1) replacing the 122-square-foot Stop
& Shop logo wall sign with a 117-square-foot sign; and 2) replacing the 6 department signs with
3 signs: Citizens, Pharmacy, and Serving Our Community.
The Stop & Shop logo wall sign is set back —300 feet from Long Pond Drive and screened from
view by distance and vegetation on the 13+ acre site. The new department signs me re.aatotal
of 58 square feet (a net decrease of 39 square feet from the existing departme .191
signage changes are consistent with what Stop & Shop has done in the past, an epresent they
third request for signage changes in 20 years.
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No abutters appeared either in favor or against the petition.
The Board agreed that the proposed changes would modernize the grocery store signage in
keeping with the company's current branding, and was pleased with the reduction in the size of
the Stop & Shop logo wall sign, and the reduction in the number of department signs.
It was the consensus of the Board that the relief would not be substantially more detrimental to
the neighborhood, and found that no undue nuisance, hazard or congestion will be created and
that there will be no substantial harm to the established or future character of the neighborhood
or Town.
Accordingly, a motion was made by Mr. Panebianco, seconded by Mr. Martin, to grant the
Special Permit as requested. The members voted unanimously (4-0) in favor of the motion.
No permit shall issue until 20 days from the filing of this decision with the Town Clerk. Appeals
from this decision shall be made pursuant to MGL c40A section 17 and must be filed within 20
days after filing of this notice/decision with the Town Clerk. Unless otherwise provided herein,
the Special Permit shall lapse if a substantial use thereof has not begun within 24 months. (See
bylaw § 103.2.5, MGL c40A §9)
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Jay Fraprie, Acting Chairman
CERTIFICATION OF TOWN CLERK
I, Mary A. Maslowski, Town Clerk, Town of Yarmouth, do hereby certify that 20 days have
elapsed since the filing with me of the above Board of Appeals Decision #5135 that no notice of
appeal of said decision has been filed with me, or, if such appeal has been filed it has been
dismissed or denied. All appeals have been exhausted.
Mary A. Maslowski, CMMC, CMC
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