Clean Power Development is responsible for permitting, constructing, and paying for an access road from Hutchins Street to its proposed biomass plant off Shelby Street.
Faced with conflicting testimony on the role of the city in providing the access road, Mayor Paul Grenier clarified the issue with the parties at Monday’s council work session.
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