approve2024-117
Approve Pole Hearing 2024-117 (National Grid petition at 58 Highland St.) with DPW stipulations (memo 8/27) and require Dig Safe notification before work.
2024-117 · LICENSE · INFRASTRUCTURE · 2024
ORDER FOR JOINT OR IDENTICAL POLE LOCATIONS
Authorizes National Grid and Verizon to install a joint pole on Highland Street near 58 Highland Street. Sets pole location, height, and underground provisions, with city coordination.
approved NEIGHBORHOODSPECIFIC PROPERTY
- STEP 1SubmittedSEP 24 2024
- STEP 2 · CURRENTApprovedSEP 24 2024
AI summary · plain-language
The Amesbury DPW reviewed a petition from National Grid and Verizon to locate a joint pole on Highland Street near 58 Highland Street as part of a substation project. The DPW has minimal concerns and recommends keeping the pole within the right-of-way and away from the paved surface, with notice to the City’s DPW and Water/Sewer before installation. The City Council is being asked to grant the joint pole location and permission to erect and maintain the pole and related wires, subject to plan details (Pole P#13-50), required height, and future underground connections, and to reserve space on the pole for municipal wires, with compliance with notice/hearing requirements.
Key provisions
§1 Grants joint pole locations for National Grid and Verizon to install one pole on Highland Street near 58 Highland Street.
§2 Poles shall be sound timber, reasonably straight, and not less than 20 feet high.
§3 Pole to be located on the north side, about 325 feet NW of the Highland Street/Hillside Avenue centerline.
§4 Allows underground laterals and reserves space for municipal cross-arm; requires notice to DPW and Water/Sewer before work.
Discussed at meetings
City CouncilCity Council Meeting