Environmental Renewable Energy Zoning
July 15, 2026 by Kathleen Heyer | Leave a Comment
This week the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) issued its decision in Sunpin Energy Services, LLC v. Zoning Bd. of Appeals of Petersham (pdf), its first decision addressing the solar energy provision of M.G.L. c. 40A, § 3 (the so-called Dover Amendment) since the court’s 2022 decision in Tracer Lane II Realty, LLC v. Waltham. […]
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April 18, 2023 by Tess Edwards | Leave a Comment
On March 1, 2023, Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell’s Municipal Law Department issued a decision (pdf) disapproving two sections of the Town of Wendell’s amended zoning bylaw, one of which prohibited stand-alone battery energy storage facilities in all districts. As previewed in our blog post last month, based on a footnote in the former […]
