land use

The real estate developer behind a plan to turn the Twin Brooks golf course in Hyannis into an apartment complex says it won’t put the project on hold to consider modifications proposed by the Barnstable Land Trust.

A working group organized by the Cape Cod Commission to examine strategies for dealing with development pressure heard competing points of view on Wednesday.One came from Will Rubenstein, who with his wife owns Camp Wingate*Kirkland in Yarmouth Port.

The owner of the Twin Brooks golf course in Hyannis says financial realities make it difficult to change plans for more than 300 apartments that have drawn opposition in the community, including from the Barnstable Land Trust.

The options put forth by the Barnstable Land Trust would still build housing, which the group agrees is needed. But the new alternatives would save more open space by concentrating the housing where the adjacent hotel and conference center are now.

The Cape Cod Commission is examining its land-development regulations in response to increasing development pressure on recreational and agricultural land, such as golf courses and cranberry bogs.