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Douglas W. Lebel
377 Iyannough Road
Hyannis, Ma. 02601
Email douglebel@gmail.com
Telephone 508-776-3600
March 25th, 2024
Town of Barnstable Building inspectors’ office
200 Main Street,
Hyannis, Ma. 02601
Attentfon: Brian Florence
Re: Security Residence
270 Communicatfon way and 88 Iyannough Road Hyannis, ma.
Hyannis Ma.
Hi Brian
It was a pleasure speaking to you last week. I reviewed the files provided by the building
Inspectors office for the above referenced projects.
I was able to gather some documents from the fie that I think clearly demonstrates that both a
building permit number 3186 and a Certfficate of use and Compliance number 6359 were issued
for the residence/office on August 8th, 1988, well before the building permits were issued on
the other self-storage units. Even when you look at the old numbers of 32147 on the building
permit it matches the 32147 on the Certfficate of occupancy. The building square footage lists
1668 square feet.
The controlled constructfon plans for the project known as 270 Communicatfon Way prepared
by Northside Design on February 16th, 1988, stamped and signed by Philbrook engineering the
project Controlled Constructfon Engineer clearly included an apartment and office which
building plans are shown on sheet A9-21 Provided by your office clearly showed a residence and
an office. What I think made this confusing was that the residence and office was constructed a
year before the self-storage facility was started. In fact, there were only two Office/warehouse
buildings under constructfon at that tfme. See building permit 3186 and occupancy permit
6359.
Philbrook engineering project engineer in one of his reports on 8/25/88 32147 makes reference
to residentfal framing and the first storage units known as buildings #1, #2, and #3. Therefore,
everyone knew there was an apartment in the complex shown on the original plans and
building permit.
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The Occupancy permit summary sheet shows permit #6359 as BCOO which is copied on the
same sheet as the building permit.
The building permit for the self-storage was pulled on February 14th, 1989, BLD permit number
3209 and an Occupancy Use permit for the self-storage was pulled on building number 9 on
June 20th, 1989, document number 6359. Building 9 is not the office/ apartment, it is self-
storage.
Please review the attached documents and let me know your thoughts.
88 Iyannough Road self-storage seems to be a different story. There are very few documents
provided. No documents on record appear to support an apartment in this complex. The Order
of Conditfons claimed that building permit documents were on record with conservatfon
however I received very few documents.
However, I was thinking about the disgruntled employees’ comments that people were living in
these empty or partfally empty storage units. Which would be unsafe or a fire trap. I don’t think
that is happening with the current security apartments in place at Bruce’s facilitfes. I don’t
dispute that people are desperate to get a roof over their heads to try to get into these units.
With today’s battery powered tools it takes very little tfme to cut a fence or padlock.
Maybe a smarter optfon for the town would be to require that every new and or existfng self-
storage projects can have a security apartment. This could easily be accomplished by changing
the zoning bylaws to allow security apartments in storage facility. The Town Council could
approve this minor zoning change.
I will send you the documents by email so you can enlarge them.
Please review the documents and let me know.
Respectiully,
Douglas Lebel