Acushnet Planning Board sends floodplain fix, tree fund to town meeting warrant

ACUSHNET -- April 16, 2026, Acushnet Planning Board advances floodplain correction and new tree-fund to annual town meeting. The board voted unanimously on seven actions at its April 16 meeting, including endorsing two approval-not-required land divisions on Perry Hill Road and Main Street, both presented by surveyor John Romanelli of Zenith Land Surveyors. Chair Mark Francois and members Bryan Deschamps and Peter Giampa, with Town Planner Victoria Alfaro joining via Teams, approved a stormwater modification for the Acushnet Solar facility at 1050 Main Street after peer reviewer Merrill Engineering found the storage-volume calculations adequate. The board closed a public hearing and sent a correction to the town's Floodplain Overlay District bylaw to the warrant, adding Flood Zone A and Zone AO that were omitted from the original state model bylaw. A land management revolving fund, seeded by roughly $7,500 already collected from a solar applicant unable to replant displaced trees, also goes to town meeting, with a complete streets policy simultaneously forwarded to the Board of Selectmen for adoption.