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Ziino, Genevey
From:Chuck Tuttle <chastuttle@gmail.com>
Sent:Monday, January 22, 2024 12:39 PM
To:Brigham, Anna; Ziino, Genevey; Jenkins, Elizabeth
Subject:Wendy's Restaurant application - 715 West Main Street, Hyannis
Dear ZBA members,
Unfortunately I will be off-Cape on Wednesday, January 24 and unable to attend the ZBA meeting
I am writing in very strong opposition to the application to allow a drive-through facility at a proposed restaurant at the
corner of Pine Street and West Main Street in Hyannis: 715 West Main Street.
I understand that this parcel is zoned HB, so a restaurant is a permitted use.
I also understand that it must be a challenge for ZBA to consider applications which change the use, and greatly intensify
traffic, at property which is very near or directly abuts residential areas.
715 West Main Street is such a parcel.
The highest and best use for that location is a bank, insurance office, real estate office, medical office, or some similar
use which does not significantly increase vehicle trips and therefore traffic.
A drive-through situation in a fast food restaurant like Wendy's depends on maximizing the vehiclular throughput. West
Main Street is already increasingly clogged. Allowing an intense vehicular use, such as a drive-through function, at that
location would severely negatively impact traffic on Pine Street and West Main Street
The primary concern is citizens' safety.
Barnstable High School is directly across the street.
A restaurant such as Wendy's is bound to attract many high school-aged students.
Students crossing busy West Main Street is literally a disastrous accident waiting to happen. Potential loss of life is real.
Add to that a drive-through situation and you have an absolute recipe for disaster.
I speak for dozens of my neighbors who are adamantly opposed to a drive-through situation at 715 West Main Street.
I hope that you put the interests of our community, its residents, its residential taxpayers, and the safety of our students
ahead of the commercial interests of a fast food franchise owner.
Additionally, I hope that you require signage which is in keeping with the local Centerville neighborhood. Please don't let
the signage at the new Wendy's restaurant begin to create the commercialization, visual degradation, and urban sprawl
that has so severely and negatively affected Route 28 in Yarmouth, for example.
Thank you,
Chuck Tuttle
Centerville resident & Barnstable taxpayer
508-367-8800 direct/mobile