Planning Board Revises Battery Storage Bylaw for Vote
Lakeville's Planning Board spent most of its October 8 meeting rewriting a battery energy storage bylaw ahead of a fall town meeting deadline.
Planning Board · Meeting of October 8, 2026
Lakeville's Planning Board spent most of its October 8 meeting rewriting a battery energy storage bylaw ahead of a fall town meeting deadline. Town Counsel Liz Lydon and Interim Fire Chief Lynch, filling in for an ailing Fire Chief O'Brien, walked through line-by-line edits, lowering the "tier one" residential threshold from 250 to 50 kilowatt-hours and adding setbacks of up to 1,000 feet from schools and nursing homes. Lynch warned "there is no agent that will put a lithium-ion battery fire out," while Chair Michele T.
MacEachern cautioned that stacking too many buffers could leave only "five percent of the town" available for siting, risking a Dover Amendment violation. The board voted unanimously to let MacEachern finalize bylaw language with town counsel, approved a parking expansion and a Zoning Board of Appeals support letter for 10 Harding Street, and named MacEachern as its designee to a new nine-member committee reviewing a possible town purchase of land at 30 Howland Road.
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Source: the Planning Board meeting of October 8, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.
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