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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">Hello MassPlanners:</span></span></div>
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<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">The Town of Athol is working on a Municipal Decarbonization Plan, which is being designed to meet the<span style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important"> Commonwealth's
goals in their recent 2050 Decarbonization Roadmap that calls for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 45% by 2030 and 85% by 2050.</span></span></div>
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<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">We have a new member on our local Energy Committee. He's extremely passionate about reducing Carbon (C) emissions and wishes
to see the Town reduce C emissions further and on a quicker timeframe than the Commonwealth's goals. He's also interested in a Bylaw approach to codify the reductions. </span>
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<div style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">I wanted to see any examples of Massachusetts communities who have already adopted a Plan and/or Bylaw with any more specific Carbon reduction targets that are in the MA 2050<span> </span><span style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">Decarbonization<span style="margin:0px"> </span></span>Roadmap.
If so, could you please share that info with me? So far, I do have info from Northampton already.</div>
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<div style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">Thank you!</div>
<span style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">Eric</span></div>
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<p style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="">Eric R. Smith, AICP </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="">Director of Planning and Development </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="">Town of Athol </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="">584 Main Street, </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="">Athol, MA 01331 </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="">(978) 721-8500 ext. 517 </span></p>
<font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">esmith@townofathol.org </span></font></div>
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