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Yarmouth doesn't want more old ladies

TODAY's quote: “The committee felt they had answered what they were asked to do and they feel it is appropriate to the setting." - Colleen McLaughlin, Yarmouth King’s Highway Committee.

Yarmouth doesn't like windmills OR old ladies

Folks who chose to live along Route 6A tend to regard their area as not only precious, but historic, and they object to modern nuisances like wind turbines, although they apparently are oblivious to the thousands of telephone and electricity poles littering their view.

Now four, possibly even five, elderly Yarmouth women with physical or developmental disabilities want to live as a group in a one-story frame house which looks much like most Cape Cod houses with a farmer’s porch.

A typical such home by Group7 Design, is on the right.

According to this week's Register, the design firm even removed the garage and reduced the size to make it look more "Cape Coddy."

Neighbors complain that the house is still a little larger than those in the 'hood, and the 'hood is Route 6A, a.k.a. "Old King's Highway", and they think it "looks like a doctor's office."

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