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Residents urge stronger county solar policy and expanded public notice during board’s public comment period

5379613 · June 9, 2025
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Summary

A resident criticized the board’s newly adopted solar policy as too narrow and called for broader standards, larger buffers and wider notice for solar special-exception applications.

During the public-comment period, Heather Fanning (Pomona Road) urged the board to strengthen the county’s solar policy and expand notice and buffering requirements for commercial solar projects.

Fanning said the policy the board approved the prior month is “really lacking” because it defines utility-scale projects using an arbitrary size threshold (projects of 5 megawatts/50 acres up to 100 acres)…

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