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A solar array being proposed on a five-parcel heavily wooded area on VanBuren Road near a village of Fredonia neighborhood created some friction during the Pomfret Town Board meeting this month.
“We recognize that the east side of our project sits against a neighborhood in the village of Fredonia,” began RIC Energy Permitting Manager John Reagan. “We sent some information to the neighbors and talked to them several times. We revised our site plan and resubmitted that site plan for this month’s meeting. Essentially the changes that were made is that we eliminated about 2,600 of the modules on the eastside of the project which basically moves the set back by another 75-80 feet, so now we’ll have a setback of about 180 feet from the property line to the solar arrays.”