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Resident tells Sudbury Select Board a proposed stretch energy code would raise median home cost about $44,000 and have a 43-year payback on energy savings
Summary
Resident Karen Arpino told the Select Board the proposed specialized stretch energy code could add roughly 4% to home-construction costs in Sudbury — an estimated $44,000 on the town's median home price — with small monthly energy savings that produce a long payback period.
Karen Arpino, a Sudbury resident, used her public comment time at the Feb. 4 Select Board meeting to urge caution about a proposed specialized stretch energy code and to share cost estimates she said were derived from a bipartisan MIT and Wentworth study.
Arpino told the board the report estimates the stretch code would increase construction costs by approximately 4 percent. "The average home in Sudbury is over $1,100,000 and that is…
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