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Dec. 4—NEW LONDON — The city and a renewable energy developer are proposing to construct a 991-kilowatt solar panel array on a 4.25-acre section of capped landfill surrounded by the sprawling Bates Woods property.
The plan, which will be discussed at a Planning and Zoning Commission public hearing on Thursday, calls for building a series of ground-mounted racking systems holding 3,032 solar panels. The panels would be positioned on a portion of former ash and bulky waste landfill land used for about 30 years before it closed in 1991.
The proposed building site at 0 Chester Street is located within an open-space district, though a site development plan application notes state zoning regulations permit ⁘public utility installations⁘ as an accessory use in such districts.
⁘The proposed array will directly connect to the public electric grid, providing for a productive re-use of this underutilized city property and a new source of clean and renewable energy,⁘ the project application states.
The arrays will feed into a public grid connection point at the corner of Colman Street and Ashcraft Road.
A memo from the Michelle Johnson Scovish, the city's planning and zoning official, notes the proposed project, described as a ⁘small scale solar field,⁘ would be constructed in a section of Bates Woods Park that is not ⁘accessible to the general public.⁘
The Inland Wetlands and Conservation Commission on Oct. 10 approved the installation of several utility poles at the proposed building site to support the work.
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