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Committee discusses bill to remove aesthetics from PUC siting criteria for energy projects
Summary
Representative Chris Morrow presented a short bill to remove aesthetic criteria from the Public Utility Commission's evaluation under 30 V.S.A. § 248(b); members debated trade-offs between subjective aesthetics and community character and suggested narrower fixes such as barring denials that are based solely on aesthetics.
For the record, Representative Chris Morrow (West End) was recorded as present to discuss a bill on page 651 that would change 30 V.S.A. § 248(b) by removing aesthetic criteria from the Public Utility Commission's evaluation of certain projects, Chair Scott Campbell said.
Morrow described the proposal as brief: "It's a very simple bill. It's, basically, a page and a…
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