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Nottoway supervisors approve amended solar rules after lengthy public hearing; planning commission had opposed changes
Summary
After a multi-hour public hearing with developers, landowners and opponents, the Nottoway County Board of Supervisors voted to adopt changes to the county's solar ordinance as advertised, removing one developer supervision requirement but leaving setbacks and a new 170-megawatt county cap largely in place.
The Nottoway County Board of Supervisors on Thursday voted to adopt amendments to the county's solar energy ordinance as advertised, excluding a late addition that would have required developer projects to be supervised by Dominion Energy.
The ordinance revision drew a packed public hearing and more than two hours of testimony from developers, landowners and opponents before the board voted to approve the advertised changes. Board members recorded the final roll call after debate; the chair announced the motion passed with six votes in favor and one recorded opposition.
The changes in the advertised draft remove an earlier 50-acre/5-megawatt cap and instead set a county-wide ceiling of 170 megawatts in the ordinance language, and revise definitions and operational requirements for solar projects. At the planning commission meeting earlier this month, members voted 8-0 to recommend denial of the proposed changes and to retain the more restrictive existing ordinance.
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