A special exception permit for a wedding, events and photography venue on a couple’s five-acre parcel in the Elon area received the Amherst County Board of Supervisors’ approval May 21 in a 3-1 vote.
An area of about 93 acres on Virginia 210 in Madison Heights recently was rezoned from a public lands, P-1, zoning district to Industrial, M-1, at the request of the Economic Development Authority of Amherst County.
After approving two solar farms in the past few years and last month denying the largest one yet proposed in the Piney River area, the Amherst County Board of Supervisors unanimously adopted an update to utility-scale solar zoning rules Tuesday.
Amherst County’s proposed fiscal year 2024-25 budget includes a proposed 3.7% pay raise for county, no planned tax increases and a surplus of roughly $987,600 in revenue over expenses.