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Planning Board finds transit charger application complete; schedules site walk and public hearing for July 1
Summary
The Planning Board found the Biddeford–Saco–Old Orchard Beach Transit on-route pantograph charger application complete and granted several waivers, scheduling a public hearing and a site walk for July 1. Board members discussed power supply, number of pantographs, emergency access and fire/containment planning for battery incidents.
The Socko Planning Board voted to find the application for on-route pantograph chargers at the Saco Transportation Center complete, granted several technical waivers and scheduled a public hearing and site walk for July 1.
Why it matters: The project would provide fast, short-duration charging to battery-electric buses using pantograph arms at the Saco Transportation Center (Saco Island zoning district), supporting the region’s transition to zero-emission transit vehicles. The board’s action advances local land-use review while highlighting unresolved technical issues that staff and the applicant will address before final approvals.
What the board decided At the meeting the board granted waivers for the lighting plan, standard boundary survey and topography submission (staff and board concluded the submitted street-view rendering meets the intent of a landscape/visual plan) and then voted 4-0 to find the application complete for review. The board scheduled the public…
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