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Plymouth board approves Pine Gate Cooperative community solar special exceptions, limits access road use
Summary
The zoning board approved two special exceptions for a community solar project proposed by Pine Gate Cooperative, accepted a $400,000 renewable-energy grant was received, and imposed a condition limiting use of an access driveway to maintenance for the life of the project at its current location.
The Plymouth Zoning Board approved two special exceptions for a proposed community solar array for the Pine Gate manufactured-housing cooperative and adopted a condition limiting use of a nearby access drive to maintenance of the solar project in its current location.
Carlson Swafford, attorney with the Energy Clinic at Vermont Law and Graduate School, told the board that the cooperative received a $400,000 award under New Hampshire’s Renewable Energy Fund and that the award supports a community solar project for low- and moderate-income residents in Plymouth. Swafford said the cooperative engaged Barrington Power, with Ted Van Zant present as the project engineer, to design and construct the array. Swafford said the award will fund “the Pine Gate Cooperative to build a 92.4” (transcript: unit not specified in meeting record).
Swafford requested two special exceptions from the Plymouth Zoning Ordinance: one to permit more than three accessory structures on a lot (the project’s three panel arrays will be counted as separate structures) and…
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