Culpeper Star-Exponent
The 1,700-acre Maroon Solar project of North Carolina-based Strata Solar goes back before the Culpeper County Planning Commission at 7 p.m. this Wednesday night in the auditorium at Eastern View High School.
Consideration of the resubmittal comes some four months after the company pulled its original application for the solar power project on mostly cleared timberland near Raccoon Ford, zoned for agricultural use.
The proposal faced opposition from neighbors and others regarding its size and the impact on rural viewshed, natural resources and environment, and the historic nature of the remote area near the Rapidan River. The parcel is bisected by the Dominion Power transmission line to which the project would connect.