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Millis planning board recommends bylaw to define and zone battery storage and data centers
Summary
The Town of Millis Planning Board voted April 7 to recommend a zoning bylaw amendment that would add definitions for battery energy storage systems and data storage centers and restrict larger facilities to industrial zones; the article will be placed on the warrant for Town Meeting.
The Town of Millis Planning Board voted unanimously April 7 to recommend a proposed zoning bylaw amendment that would add definitions for "battery energy storage systems" and "data storage centers" and to limit larger facilities to industrial areas, forwarding the article to Town Meeting for consideration.
The board opened the 7:50 p.m. public hearing and discussed draft definitions prepared by the zoning bylaw review committee. Richard Nichols, chair of the Town of Millis Planning Board, said the committee aimed to give the town interim definitions because "these are 2 industries that are growing as the need for data storage grows and storage of solar energy or other energy source" and to provide locations that are suitable for Millis while state model bylaws are…
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