The permitting intelligence
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Screening a single parcel used to mean hours across MassMapper, FEMA, town websites, and clerk phone calls. Now it takes one search bar.

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50 Nagog Park
Acton, Massachusetts 01720
Area
11.2 ac
Zone
LI — Light Industrial
Project
Battery Storage (BESS)
Nearest ESMP
#29 · 0.8mi
Development
82
Climate
71
Carbon
65
Biodiversity
38
Env. Burdens
74
Env. Benefits
58
Agriculture
69
⚠Nagog Brook BioMap Core Habitat intersects NE corner — primary constraint for BESS.
2 approved BESS · Acton ConCom DOER Solar: In Progress
0
/ 100
Conditionally Suitable
Pearson r = 0.834
vs. expert scoring
BIOMAP CORE ESMP #29
The problem

The biggest risk in clean energy
isn't the technology. It's the address.

Projects fail when teams commit to a site before understanding the full permitting picture. The data exists, but it's scattered across a dozen state tools that don't talk to each other.

Fragmented data

BioMap on one site. Flood maps on another. Zoning in a PDF buried on a town website. ESMP projects in a docket filing. The information exists, but nobody has assembled it.

Civo assembles every layer →

Hours of manual screening

Front-end screening for a single parcel means toggling between MassMapper, Oliver, FEMA, town bylaws, and ConCom agendas. Four to six hours of work, per address.

Civo does it in 5 seconds →

Blind to precedent

Did this town's Conservation Commission deny a BESS project last year? Has a neighboring town reversed a solar approval? You won't find out until you're already in the hearing.

Civo surfaces every precedent →
What Civo does

Six layers of intelligence.
One search bar.

Every feature is built on real Massachusetts data, not national approximations. Here's what powers the report.

Site Suitability Scoring

Seven criteria scored under the state's 225 CMR 29.00 framework — development potential, climate impact, carbon, biodiversity, environmental burdens, environmental benefits, and agriculture. Each score traces to a real data source.

SUITABILITY REPORT 50 Nagog Park · Acton Development 82 Climate 71 Carbon 65 Biodiversity 38 Env. Burdens 74 Agriculture 69

Constraint Mapping

BioMap Core Habitat, NHESP Priority Habitat, FEMA flood zones, wetlands, and grid infrastructure projects — all rendered on one interactive map alongside the parcel boundary.

BIOMAP FLOOD ZONE ESMP #29

ConCom Precedents

See how every town's Conservation Commission has ruled on past solar, BESS, and wind projects. Know the pattern before you file your application.

ACTON CONCOM Decision history · Clean energy projects ✓ Approved BESS Storage · March 2024 ✓ Approved Solar Array · Sept 2023 ✕ Denied Solar Farm · Jan 2022

DOER Bylaw Tracking

Which towns have adopted the model solar or BESS bylaw? Which ones haven't started? Filter your site search by the towns that are actually ready for your project type.

64% adopted Adopted In Progress Not Started

Grid Infrastructure

Planned substations, transmission upgrades, and interconnection points — all mapped with proximity scoring so you know which parcels have the best grid access.

Substation A Substation B Substation C

Discover Mode

Type what you're looking for in natural language and get ranked parcels matching your criteria — acreage, utility territory, project type, and more.

5MW BESS near EMA-North... 50 Nagog Park Score: 65 · 11.2 ac 12 Mill Rd Score: 78 · 8.5 ac 8 Concord Rd Score: 71 · 6.8 ac 76 Great Rd Score: 59 · 14.1 ac

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