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Planning and Zoning Commission <br />Minutes <br />March 12,2019 <br />arduous process. But, in terms of getting the inspection done on site, it was discussed with the <br />electrical inspector here, with the electrical department, to close out the full permit on the site <br />minus that 2.75 acres and from there, pursue a follow-up permit for a final inspection on that <br />portion of the project. A side note on that, that portion of the project has never been energized, is <br />not producing electricity today. <br />In terms of pursuing the permit, we are working through the process here and it is a little bit of a <br />circular argument. <br />The Chair: Okay. Thank you. <br />The Chair wants to move to page 4, and asked Ms. Morris to come up again. He said now we are <br />inside the facility. He is doing this kind of scattered. Can we talk about the overhead lines, <br />changes to the panel, configurations, and so forth? <br />Ms. Morris said on the original plan, if the Board remembers, everything was to be underground. <br />As the site was constructed, there are two areas on the site where there are overhead lines now. <br />When you were on the site, the area here (showed site), where the landscape buffer was, there are <br />overhead lines. Then, as you approach the road where you come in and to the south of the <br />Stewart property. They were up and then back under and then back up here. This is when we <br />drove down the road. Those were not originally proposed as part of the plan. Everything was to <br />be underground. That was pointed out to the Board at the site visit so that you could see what it <br />was and whether or not you thought it was appropriate for the site. If you remember, in <br />December, we did let you all know that even though they had installed the lines, they were <br />meeting the 100-foot setback and the 100-foot landscape buffer where those lines were installed. <br />The Chair asked if there were any questions for Ms. Morris. He said after visiting, is the Board <br />satisfied with the current situation they have out there with the site design, including the <br />overhead power lines? Is everybody okay with that? Okay. We will move on from there. <br />The Chair said how about permitting of the driveway that is not permitted, the NCDOT. The <br />road has not been used since what, November? <br />Ms. Morris said yes, this was a topic of discussion and this has been talked about throughout the <br />process. This driveway is located here (showed map) off of 60 1, so you can see this is the <br />primary entrance. This is not the driveway, the access road that comes across the floodplain. This <br />is the access that is here at 601. <br />Initially, it was stated that Canadian Solar was not responsible for that driveway, that the original <br />applicants were the ones that had put the cut there and that they intended to continue to use it. <br />Since that time, when you look at the landscape plan, if it was going to be maintained, one of the <br />comments from engineering was that it needed to be permitted by the State, because it was not <br />included in the original permitting, those five driveway permits that they received. <br />17