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Supervisors weigh limited-revenue solar lease for closed Gloucester County landfill
Summary
County staff described a potential lease for solar panels on a closed county landfill and asked the Board for a preliminary "head nod" to pursue a conditional use permit and procurement; supervisors expressed liability, zoning-cap and staffing concerns and asked staff to monitor other local projects before moving forward.
Standing in for an absent staff member, a county official asked the Gloucester County Board of Supervisors on April 15 whether the board wanted staff to pursue a conditional use permit (CUP) and request-for-proposal (RFP) for a solar installation on a closed county landfill.
The official said the landfill site is about 50 acres and that a commercially sized solar array on the capped area would likely use 20 to 50 acres depending on slopes and setbacks. Under county zoning rules for the SC‑1 district, the countywide cap for utility-scale solar in the SC‑1 zone is 882 acres (the board’s two‑percent cap), and currently about 101 acres in SC‑1 are already used — meaning the proposed use would be within the county cap. Projected lease revenue…
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