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Planning Commission narrows topics for county solar facility ordinance, requests member input
Summary
Commissioners reviewed multiple policy questions for a proposed solar facility ordinance — acreage thresholds, setbacks and buffers, protection of prime farmland, definitions of project area, distance between projects, pollinator programs and battery storage — and requested members submit priorities for follow‑up and Solar Facility Committee review.
The Lunenburg County Planning Commission spent a portion of its Nov. 2 meeting on Old Business reviewing policy questions for a Solar Facility Study intended to guide ordinance changes.
Chairman James Tharpe and commissioners discussed a list of topics staff and the Solar Facility Committee will consider, including appropriate acreage thresholds (with Rockingham and Stafford noted as examples); whether to prohibit solar on parcels that have been clear‑cut or replanted within…
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