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BARC cooperative wins two-year approval to make Millboro laydown yard permanent after neighbors object
Summary
After lengthy public comment, the Rockbridge County Board of Supervisors approved amended conditions letting BARC Electrical Cooperative keep and formalize a laydown yard and add covered storage at its Millboro/Highland Bell site, subject to new conditions and a two‑year period of validity and additional design details to be provided.
The Rockbridge County Board of Supervisors on April 14 approved revised conditions allowing BARC Electrical Cooperative to continue using its Millboro property in Cars Creek as a permanent equipment laydown site and to pursue covered storage, after more than two hours of public comment from residents and a presentation by BARC leadership.
The board voted to accept a set of planning-commission-recommended conditions as revised by county staff and on the record, and set the permit to a two-year period of validity so the cooperative and neighbors could finalize building details, stormwater and floodplain plans and the new Fredericksburg Road entrance. The motion passed unanimously.
The application asked to convert an area that has repeatedly been permitted as a temporary laydown yard into a longer-term facility with covered storage and a warehouse/shop building. BARC CEO Bill Buchanan told the board the site supports both electric service operations and BarkConnex broadband construction and maintenance: “The lay down yard is pretty critical for the continuation of us building broadband,” he said,…
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