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<p class="MsoNormal">Good morning all,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Truro’s Zoning Bylaw provides for permitting of <span style="mso-ligatures:none">
“Large-Scale Ground-Mounted Photovoltaic Arrays” with requirements for application materials, standards to meet, etc. It also contains a requirement that is challenging to me: the definition for Large Scale Arrays includes the following language:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">“All Large-Scale Ground-Mounted Solar Photovoltaic Installations shall be owned and operated by either the Town of Truro
<b>or under agreements with the Town of Truro.”</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">I’m trying to figure out the appropriate subjects for any such agreement, given that a special permit would contain an “array” of requirements and conditions. What would the Town (through the Select Board?)
be negotiating with the owner, and what would be lawful for the Town to require that is above/beyond/outside of the permit process? Is this a statutory requirement? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Does anyone have a similar provision in your large-scale solar bylaw? I’m interested in if/how others have managed this requirement.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Barbara<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">Barbara Carboni AICP<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">Truro Town Planner and Land Use Counsel<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">(508) 214 0928<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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