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Supervisors authorize county administrator to negotiate Dominion Energy ground lease for closed landfill solar project
Summary
The Board of Supervisors approved a resolution authorizing the county administrator to enter a ground-lease agreement with Dominion Energy for a potential solar project on the capped landfill at 1206 Jolly Pond Road; the lease allows a multi-year due-diligence phase and requires a future special-use permit and site plan before construction.
The James City County Board of Supervisors voted to authorize the county administrator to enter into a ground-lease agreement with Dominion Energy for a proposed solar facility at the county's closed landfill at 1206 Jolly Pond Road.
Assistant County Attorney Andrew Dean told the board the negotiations center on a roughly 60-to-80 acre project footprint on the county's roughly 545-acre parcel, with the solar array sited on the capped landfill area. "The lease does attempt to give Dominion some flexibility during the initial phases of the lease to determine the feasibility of the proposed use while the county continues to have…
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