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Staff reports on solar applications; Board approved sawmill permit, commission hears
Summary
Assistant County Administrator Monica Elder updated the Planning Commission on solar applications and approved solar projects and reported that the Board of Supervisors had approved a sawmill permit for Reuben Stoltzfus.
Monica Elder, Assistant County Administrator, told the Charlotte County Planning Commission on Aug. 17, 2023, that county staff had updates on solar permit applications and approved solar projects and that the Board of Supervisors had approved Reuben Stoltzfus’s sawmill permit application as presented.
Monica Elder provided the staff report during the meeting’s business portion. The transcript records Elder’s update in a single item: an overview of solar application activity and the Board’s action to approve the Stoltzfus sawmill permit. The transcript does not include technical details of the solar projects, the number of projects approved, project sizes, or the conditions of the sawmill permit; those details were not specified in the meeting record.
During public comment earlier in the meeting, citizen P.K. Pettus noted the Board’s Aug. 14 work session on solar with the Department of Wildlife Resources and urged the county to hold similar work sessions with the Department of Forestry, the Department of Environmental Quality and the Department of Conservation & Recreation to inform planning decisions around solar and natural-resource impacts. The transcript records Pettus’s recommendation but does not show a response from staff or the commission in this meeting segment.
The meeting adjourned after the commission completed its business.
