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Select Board debates tougher earth-removal rules and whether to preempt data centers
Summary
Board members discussed tightening the earth-removal bylaw (fees, performance bonds, remote monitoring and peer review) and considered whether to craft a bylaw to limit high-resource users such as data centers, with members split between a preemptive ban and requiring enhanced reviews.
Select Board members spent a substantial portion of their Dec. 2 meeting debating updates to Lakeville's earth-removal bylaw and whether the town should adopt a bylaw to limit so-called 'overconsumption' by large industrial users, including data centers.
A Select Board member said the current earth-removal bylaw (last revised Nov. 8, 2021) contains low administrative fees ($200 per acre and $0.15 per cubic yard) and does not reflect newer monitoring technologies. The member proposed…
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