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Falmouth Planning Board accepts Eversource interconnection and continues Boxberry Hill solar hearing
Summary
After extensive review of safety, restoration, traffic and interconnection details, the Falmouth Planning Board voted to accept the applicant's Eversource interconnection agreement (including eight new utility poles along the described route), recorded multiple conditions to be refined, and continued final action on the ASC Cape Cod Holdings LLC large-scale solar project to April 14.
The Falmouth Planning Board conducted a lengthy review of ASC Cape Cod Holdings LLC's proposal for large-scale, ground-mounted solar arrays with battery storage on parcels along Boxberry Hill Road and related streets. Attorney Matt Terry, project engineers and multiple consultants presented the project and addressed board questions about scope, safety, mitigation and community benefits.
Project scope and justifications: Matt Terry and project consultants described arrays at multiple parcels with supporting infrastructure, on-site battery storage, pollinator meadows, and a restoration plan required by the Cape Cod Commission (finding F28) that calls for planting 650 trees (232 within protected open space) and thousands of shrubs and meadow establishment. The applicant said most basins are dry detention basins and that only one depression near a vernal pool may pond temporarily for wildlife access. "This property has been a hotel since the 1950s... we believe the project meets the criteria for site plan review and for the special permit," an applicant representative said when summarizing prior approvals and precedent.
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