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Conservation Commission seeks legal draft of invasive-species mitigation language for larger projects

2942003 · April 10, 2025
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Summary

Commissioners voted to ask the city’s legal office to draft standard language that would require larger development projects to include multi-year invasive-species removal and maintenance plans, and discussed tying compliance to certificates of compliance or occupancy.

The Lowell Conservation Commission voted April 9 to ask the city solicitor’s office to draft sample language requiring mitigation and monitoring of invasive plant species for larger development projects.

Commissioners said invasives frequently require three- to five-year programs to control and that practices vary between projects. One…

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