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Planners set public hearing on power-plant stack-height amendment after Tenaska request; waiver language added
Summary
The planning commission approved a resolution to advertise a zoning-text amendment that would raise allowable stack heights for power plants and added language to let the Board of Supervisors waive or modify height rules as part of a special-use permit process.
Fluvanna County Planning Commission on Sept. 9 voted to advertise a zoning-text amendment and public hearing to change maximum chimney/stack-height allowances for power production plants, a change requested by Tenaska Power Generation LLC and related applicants.
County staff read the existing code language and the proposed change for commissioners. Under current county code, the ordinance allows a stack height equal to "the lesser of 145 feet above ground level or the height determined by good engineering practice as determined by the State Air Pollution Control Board or the Department of Environmental Quality." The proposed amendment would raise the stated allowance and add a cap; the packet draft suggested a 199-foot maximum…
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