Alex Darus, Banner Correspondent
PROVINCETOWN After weeks of pushing back, residents who live in the historic district successfully stopped a proposed solar panel project that would have put a solar complex in the center of town that some called the size of a football field.
“It’s just going to ruin our historic neighborhood,” resident Lori Dolby, who lives near the Riley Brothers’ parking lot where the project was proposed, said during the Jan. 20 Historic District Commission meeting.
The commission unanimously voted at that meeting to deny a request by Nathan Collins and NextGrid to install eight solar canopies in the parking lot at 134 Bradford Street and 10 Conwell Street, which is next to the CVS pharmacy. The applicant had been before the board four times, and received overwhelming opposition from abutters, who thought the canopies, which would have been up to 16 feet tall, would ruin the historic charm of the neighborhood and be an eyesore.