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Legislative affairs panel recommends moving pole-permit review to city engineer, forwards updated fee schedule
Summary
The Revere Legislative Affairs Subcommittee on Aug. 25 voted to favorably recommend an ordinance to route National Grid pole and conduit requests through the city engineer and unanimously forwarded a revised Appendix A fee schedule to full council.
The Revere Legislative Affairs Subcommittee on Aug. 25 voted to recommend two measures to the full City Council: an ordinance proposing that requests from utilities for new pole locations and conduit be handled by the city engineer and a revised Appendix A fee schedule that updates a range of municipal fees.
"National Grid comes up before us for pole locations and conduit locations. In my opinion, that would be best suited to the city engineer," the councilor who introduced the motion said, describing the change as a way to free council time for other matters. He added that the engineer would still notify the ward councilor when National Grid made a request so the councilor could canvass neighbors and raise concerns.
Supporters argued the change would put technical decisions in the hands of the engineering office. "It our time is better served…
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