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Residents press FPL on years-long undergrounding delays; council asks staff for easement list
Summary
A long public discussion with Florida Power & Light focused on delayed undergrounding, missing easements, damaged culverts and slow responses from other utilities; residents urged the town to compile a shovel-ready parcel list for easements so FPL can put the town back on a January undergrounding schedule.
Fluent and at times heated public comment dominated the second portion of the Nov. 4 meeting as residents and an FPL representative debated delays and unresolved work on the town's undergrounding program and related infrastructure repairs.
An FPL representative described recent work: drone surveys, vegetation management and trimming on lateral lines; he said about one third of a targeted lateral had been cleared and that a goal of completion for some linings remained late November to early December, weather permitting. He also said legal easement…
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