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Municipal leaders ask legislature to let towns remove overdue double utility poles
Summary
The Massachusetts Municipal Association and town officials urged the committee to advance H.3462/S.2250 to allow municipalities to remove and charge for overdue double poles that create safety, accessibility and construction delays.
Municipal officials told the committee that hundreds of “double poles” — where old and new utility poles coexist after upgrades — are creating safety hazards, accessibility barriers and construction delays in communities across the Commonwealth, and they urged passage of legislation to give towns authority to remove overdue poles.
Adrienne Nunez, legislative analyst at the Massachusetts Municipal Association, said the bills H.3462 and S.2250 would empower municipalities to enforce an existing 90‑day removal deadline for duplicate poles, access…
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