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Resident urges Board to amend Solar Ordinance, cites concerns about Energix panels
Summary
Robert Carlson of North Tazewell urged the Board of Supervisors to prohibit and amend the county Solar Ordinance, expressing concern about the types of solar panels Energix plans to use and contrasting the project with a Tennessee installation.
During the citizens comment period at the May 9 meeting, Robert Carlson of 1142 Lake Witten Road, North Tazewell, asked the Board of Supervisors to "prohibit and amend the Solar Ordinance." Carlson said he was "real concerned with the types of panels that are being use," and asserted there are "four (4) types of solar panels and the types of panels that Energix will be utilizing is last on the list." He also said he examined a White Pines, Tennessee solar farm and that in that instance public utilities joined to use electricity generated locally, "Not like the proposed one here."
No formal response from commission members or county staff is recorded in the meeting transcript; the comment was entered during the public-comment portion of the meeting and no vote or official follow-up action was recorded in this transcript. The Planning Commission's formal actions that night were procedural approvals and a referral of an E & S ordinance to the Board of Supervisors.
