Barnstable Planning Board Rejects Downtown Hyannis Remap, Backs Two Other Zoning Changes

Planning Board · Meeting of August 10, 2026

Barnstable Planning Board recommends two downtown Hyannis zoning amendments and rejects a proposed 29-parcel map rezone near Stewart's Creek. Meeting August 10 at Town Hall in Hyannis, the six-member board voted unanimously to forward positive recommendations to the Town Council on Town Council Item 2027-007, which standardizes building height definitions and sets a two-and-a-half-story, 40-foot maximum in the downtown neighborhood district, and on Item 2027-008, which establishes tiered front setbacks of five to 15 feet for smaller structures and 10 to 15 feet for taller ones in downtown Main Street and downtown village. The board then voted 6-0 to not recommend Item 2027-009, which would have reclassified 29 parcels from downtown Main Street to downtown neighborhood.

Member Tim O'Neill said the downtown neighborhood use table is "strictly" residential with limited medical office, meaning the change would immediately render a bakery, a florist, a diner, a restaurant, and two town-owned performing arts office buildings nonconforming. Attorney Dan Creeden, representing 720 Main Residences LLC, described a near-decade effort to develop a 40-unit apartment building on the most contested parcel and asked the board to exclude it; Assistant Director Kyle Badosini warned the board that a double negative recommendation would trigger a two-year bar on resubmitting the rezoning.

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Source: the Planning Board meeting of August 10, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.