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Emery County CRA adopts Horn Shadow map fixes, hears construction and community benefits update
Summary
The Emery County CRA adopted a second amended project-area plan for the Horn Shadow Solar project to align parcel maps with legal descriptions, ratified prior agreements and heard an update that the project logged roughly 670,000 work hours, spent about $105 million with Utah subcontractors and donated $200,000 to the county school district.
The Emery County Community Reinvestment Agency on April 15 adopted a second amended and restated project-area plan for the Horn Shadow Solar project and ratified prior agency actions, cleaning up mismatches between earlier maps and legal parcel descriptions.
Staff (S2) told the board the amendments remove several parcels and add others so the project-area map now matches legal descriptions; an attorney’s opinion included in the packet said the changes “do not materially increase the base value or the duration of the project,” allowing the board to amend the plan without an additional public hearing. Unnamed board members asked whether parcels could be split for mixed uses; staff said parcels generally must remain whole for tax-administration purposes.
Project representative S8 updated the board on construction progress and local impacts. S8 said the two-phase project totals about 300 megawatts, is currently solar-only with the battery component delayed, and is “largely mechanically complete.” S8 provided employment and spending figures: roughly 670,000 work hours, a peak workforce of about 450 and an average crew of roughly 180 over 13 months of construction; the general contractor has spent roughly $105,000,000 with Utah subcontractors and vendors. S8 said the project donated $200,000 to the Emery County School District and committed smaller sponsorships to local events and teams.
The board voted to adopt the amended project-area boundaries and later approved a separate resolution ratifying and confirming prior agency actions and formally approving a participation agreement with Horn Shadow Solar LLC. Board members described the actions as 'cleanup' to ensure records matched executed agreements.
S8 said the developer anticipates construction largely complete by June with remaining punch-list items over the summer and that the battery installation, if pursued, will require additional permitting and likely a building permit and conditional-use reviews. The board asked staff and the developer to coordinate on long-term maintenance responsibilities, water use (S8 estimated about one acre-foot of water use per year), and potential road impacts during finishing work. S8 said an operations-and-maintenance contractor will assume custody and control when construction ends.
The CRA’s action amends the official project-area map and legal description to reflect what staff said was already intended in the original plan; the board treated the adoption and the subsequent ratification vote as ministerial steps to align county records with project realities.
