[Massplanners] Tree Protection & Nat. Resource Protection Bylaws

[Laura Harbottle]

Hi Richard and Massplanners,
Since zoning for large scale ground-mounted solar was required for Green
Communities, several of the communities I know created an overlay for their
capped landfills where it was allowed. If it's a different situation, there
are consultants who will review ground-mounted solar and you can probably
find them by asking on Massplanners. My understanding is their fee can be
paid by applicants as a 53G type of expense.
Good luck!
Laura

Laura Harbottle AICP, CFM
Interim Town Planner
5 Springdale Ave.
Dover, MA  02030

On Fri, Jul 1, 2022 at 11:39 AM Richard McCarthy <rmccarthy at norfolk.ma.us>
wrote:

> Laura,
>
> How would you dealing with ground mounted solar?  I still struggle with
> clear cutting acres of woodland for ground mounted solar.  We have two
> woodland sites that were clear cut just doesn’t feel like a total gain
> environmental.  I would prefer strongly incentives for roofed mounted,
> solar canopies, 21E sites and placement and placement on existing
> impervious surfaces.
>
> Just curious.
>
> Richard McCarthy
> Town Planner
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On Jun 28, 2022, at 9:52 AM, Laura Harbottle via MassPlanners <
> massplanners at masscptc.org> wrote:
> >
> > 
> > Good morning planners, natural resource nonprofits and consultants,
> > The Town of Dover has received some modest funding to develop Tree
> Protection and Natural Resource Protection bylaws. The intent is to protect
> healthy, mature trees and wetland buffers, floodplains, native vegetation
> and similar resources on both public and private property. The Tree
> Protection could be zoning or a general bylaw, the Natural Resource
> Protection will most likely be a zoning bylaw.
> >
> > It would be helpful to receive information about for-profit and
> nonprofit firms who recently developed similar bylaws, including RFP's,
> costs, successes and lessons learned. It would be great to hear from Towns
> with bylaws where a process for monitoring and enforcement was identified.
> >
> > Thanks so much!
> >
> > Laura Harbottle AICP, CFM
> > Interim Town Planner
> > 5 Springdale Ave.
> > Dover, MA  02030
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