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Planning Board issues negative declaration for 58.9-acre solar project, conditions planting and look-back for glare mitigation
Summary
The planning board issued a SEQRA negative declaration for a proposed 58.9-acre solar energy system on Millburn Road and approved related conditioned measures including an accelerated planting plan of 578 trees, a one-year post‑commercial look-back to assess glare, and requirements for an operations-and-maintenance plan and a planting bond.
The Town of Goshen Planning Board issued a negative declaration under SEQRA for a proposed 58.9-acre solar energy system submitted by Solar Liberty Energy Systems Inc., and the board approved the project’s draft negative declaration with multiple recommended clarifications and conditions addressing glare mitigation, landscaping, and operations.
Ari Goldberg of Barclay Damon, representing the applicant, described a revised glare-mitigation plan that focuses on two key planting areas (referred to in materials as Screening Areas 2 and 8, including an "improved tree line" along Millburn Road). The applicant’s glare and landscaping consultant presented three glare analyses projecting glare minutes across different future scenarios: fall 2026 (initial plantings), fall 2027 (1–2 years growth), and fall 2028 (further maturity). The applicant proposes immediate planting of 158 12-foot “Green Giant” arborvitae in the primary screening areas…
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