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2024-075 · LICENSE · INFRASTRUCTURE · 2024

ORDER FOR JOINT OR IDENTICAL POLE LOCATIONS

National Grid and Verizon seek approval to install three joint-use utility poles on South Hunt Road near Buttonwood Road, with associated wires and underground laterals; plan adherence and municipal wire space are required.

approved NEIGHBORHOOD
  1. STEP 1
    Submitted
    MAY 28 2024
  2. STEP 2 · CURRENT
    Approved
    MAY 28 2024
AI summary · plain-language

The Amesbury City Council is asked to grant joint or identical locations for the installation of three utility poles (poles #60-50, #62, and #63) along South Hunt Road near the Buttonwood Road intersection. Massachusetts Electric Company d/b/a National Grid and Verizon New England, Inc. petition to erect and maintain poles, wires, and fixtures, including necessary sustaining and protecting fixtures, with underground laterals for distribution connections. The order requires the poles to be erected substantially in accordance with the attached plan, with wires at a minimum height of 20 feet, and it reserves space on each pole for municipal cross-arm wires used for fire, police, and telegraph services. A public hearing was held, and the petition filed December 6, 2023, was approved as an order granting the requested pole locations, subject to compliance with the plan and notice provisions.

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Key provisions

§1 Grants joint locations for three poles on South Hunt Road near Buttonwood Road.
§2 Poles must be sound timber, reasonably straight, and placed as shown on the plan.
§3 Wires and fixtures shall be not less than 20 feet above ground.
§4 Permits underground laterals/wires for distribution and reserves space on each pole for municipal wires.

Discussed at meetings

City CouncilCity Council MeetingMay 28, 2024
approve2024-075
Approve 2024-075 with the stipulation that the poles be placed no less than three feet from the road.
MOVED BY COUNCILOR WHEELER · SECONDED BY COUNCILOR GILDAY · VOTE: APPROVED 7-0
2024-075 Pole Hearing - National Grid - South Hunt/Buttonwood