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Council exempts some residential service-line replacements from mandatory undergrounding to ease electrification costs
Summary
To reduce the cost barrier for home electrification (heat pumps, EV chargers), the City Council on July 7 amended the utility service-line ordinance so that replacement residential service lines may remain aerial if an existing utility pole and utility permission allow an overhead connection.
Bettina Mueves, South Burlington's climate action manager, presented a narrowly focused amendment to the Utility Service Line Ordinance at the July 7 meeting. The change adds an express exemption: replacement of a residential service line connecting an existing building to the electrical utility may be exempted from the city's usual undergrounding requirement when an existing utility pole provides an available aerial connection and the electric utility permits…
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