[Massplanners] [EXTERNAL]Re: EV Charging Station Development Requirements

[Mariah Kurtz]

Hi all,

I realize that my comment is slightly off-topic of zoning bylaws, but I would just like to add some advice that if your municipality is designing a new building or parking area, please consider at least running conduit for public chargers as well as fleet chargers. Erving is designing a new DPW facility and I am insisting that we run conduit through it so we can install fleet chargers in our garage bays in the future. When I was first hired in 2019 the highway department laughed at me when I told them they would have electric equipment within 10 years, but they're on board now and realizing how quickly the market is changing. We just bought our first EV police cruiser and we expect there will be more electric town vehicles on the way soon.


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Subject: [EXTERNAL]Re: [Massplanners] EV Charging Station Development Requirements

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The world of EVs is rapidly evolving.

https://www.eei.org/-/media/Project/EEI/Documents/Issues-and-Policy/Electric-Transportation/EV-Forecast--Infrastructure-Report.pdf

That's Alex's point:     The challenge may be to provide (now in current approvals) for the capacity to retrofit sites with more charging stations in the future, such as having conduits in place and a plan for more....similar to what we do with overflow parking areas, planned for and set aside now, but not developed until the need arises.  No need to run the wires and place the charging outlets now; just have the conduits in place with messengers in them to pull wires later.  Maybe some of you are already asking for that?

Requiring one small number now, say one charging station for every 25 cars, will be woefully inadequate 10-20 years from now.

Regards,
Dwight Merriam, FAICP
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On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 9:08 AM Alexandra Lowder via MassPlanners <massplanners at masscptc.org<mailto:massplanners at masscptc.org>> wrote:

Hi all,



I wanted to see if any of you currently have provisions in your zoning bylaws which would require electric vehicle charging stations (or at least the infrastructure) to be installed in all new multi-family or commercial developments. There is some interest in Tewksbury in codifying this type of thing, and I wanted to see if anyone else had done it before we go reinventing the wheel.



Thanks for your time,

Alex



Alexandra Lowder

Community/Economic Development Planner

Town of Tewksbury

1009 Main Street

Tewksbury, MA 01876

Office Phone:  (978) 640-4370 Ext. 248

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