<div dir="ltr"><br><div>Hi Richard and Massplanners,</div><div>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. </div><div>Good luck!</div><div>Laura</div><div><br></div><div>Laura Harbottle AICP, CFM</div><div>Interim Town Planner</div><div>5 Springdale Ave.</div><div>Dover, MA 02030</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jul 1, 2022 at 11:39 AM Richard McCarthy <<a href="mailto:rmccarthy@norfolk.ma.us">rmccarthy@norfolk.ma.us</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Laura,<br>
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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.<br>
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Just curious.<br>
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Richard McCarthy<br>
Town Planner<br>
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> On Jun 28, 2022, at 9:52 AM, Laura Harbottle via MassPlanners <<a href="mailto:massplanners@masscptc.org" target="_blank">massplanners@masscptc.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Good morning planners, natural resource nonprofits and consultants,<br>
> 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. <br>
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> 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. <br>
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> Laura Harbottle AICP, CFM<br>
> Interim Town Planner<br>
> 5 Springdale Ave.<br>
> Dover, MA 02030<br>
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