Carver Planning Board Opens Fuller Street Solar Hearing, Continues It to January

CARVER -- December 16, 2025, Carver Planning Board opens solar hearing, approves Plymouth Street tree removal, and sets January site visits. The board voted unanimously at its December 16 meeting to allow removal of a one-foot-diameter tree at 170 Plymouth Street after town presenter John Woods told members that 18-wheel box trucks rounding the corner had been striking the tree, citing a Eversource police detail witness. The board also unanimously approved an approval-not-required plan combining parcels at 31 Lakeview Street for the Washburn Family Trust, represented by attorney Pat Gordon. The largest discussion centered on a new public hearing for Fuller/Stone Street Solar LLC, which is seeking a special permit to install a ground-mounted solar array with battery storage on retired cranberry bogs straddling the Carver-Middleborough town line; consultant Sarah Stearns of Beals and Thomas acknowledged that the battery storage unit's current location, within 100 feet of a protected wetland resource area, is under active renegotiation with the landowner following Conservation Commission objections. The board continued both the Fuller/Stone Street Solar hearing and the Weatherman at Silver Street townhouse application to January 27, 2026, and scheduled a Fuller Street site visit for January 9 and a 73 Tremont Street site visit for December 29. The board also received word that Mass Housing Partnership has funded a new technical assistance grant to reengage the Barrett Planning Group on Carver's MBTA Communities zoning bylaw compliance effort.