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Residents urge supervisors to uphold solar ban and raise transmission-line concerns for data centers
Summary
Two residents used public comment to urge the board to keep restrictions on large-scale solar and to warn that data-center transmission lines and substations will affect nearby properties; speakers said prior denials and a repealed ordinance reflect county sentiment against utility-scale solar in certain areas.
Mary Hodge of the Bowling Green District and Julia Yandura of the Mattaponi District addressed the board during public comment, urging supervisors to maintain restrictions on utility-scale solar and to consider the local impacts of data-center transmission lines.
Hodge said she had previously spoken at meetings when Urban Grid and others proposed large solar projects and thanked the board for denying permits and for repealing an ordinance that allowed certain battery energy…
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