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<p class="MsoNormal">Greetings, planners:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m serving on a town study committee which is investigating how we might appropriately regulate siting & operational management of utility-scale battery energy storage systems (ESS), without running afoul of existing zoning exemptions.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We’re looking for model bylaws to consider using as a template. We are aware of ESS zoning bylaws that were approved by Medway and Sunderland and also approved by the AGO. Are there any others?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Feel free to email me directly and I’ll summarize back to the list in a few days.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">/Brant<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Brant Cheikes (Chair)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Town of Whately Planning Board<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#0563C1">https://www.whately.org/planning-board</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=4+Sandy+Lane&entry=gmail&source=g"><span style="color:#0563C1">4 Sandy Lane</span></a>, So. Deerfield, MA 01373<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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