YARMOUTH - Yarmouth town council approved a recommendation from its planning advisory committee on Nov. 16 to rezone a new location for the Yarmouth Food Bank.
The zoning amendment was required for the site, at 2 and 6 Herbert St., for the organization to operate.
Stephanie Eldridge, a Huntington Street resident who lives very close to the food bank’s new site, was against the relocation of the food bank and had spoken against it at a public hearing in late September. She shared her views again at the public hearing that preceded the Nov. 16 council meeting.
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Eldridge is concerned about what she refers to as “crowds that can swell from 30 to 100 waiting people at a time, massive storage of food, six-ton trucks from Feed Nova Scotia and nonpaid employees who drop off food, organize food stock and handle distribution and cleanup.”