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Public Hearing Notices

Public Hearings are part of formal government meetings and are scheduled as needed. Public Hearings are opportunities for a governing body to receive testimony from the public at large on local issues or proposed government actions. Notices are posted here and published in The Winchester Star — the area’s newspaper of record — at least 10 days prior to the Public Hearing.

 

Public Hearing: SUP-22-03/SP-22-04, Hecate Energy Gun Barrel Road Solar, LLC; Hecate Energy, LLC (applicants)/Debra Diane Davis, Administrator of the Estate of Montie Wood Gibson, Jr. (owner-deceased)

  • Date: 11/04/2022 9:00 AM - 11:30 AM  

The Clarke County Planning Commission will conduct a public hearing in the Berryville-Clarke County Government Center second-floor main meeting room, 101 Chalmers Ct., Berryville, Va., at 9.m. Friday, Nov. 4, 2022, to consider the following matter:

SUP-22-03/SP-22-04 Hecate Energy Gun Barrel Road Solar, LLC; Hecate Energy, LLC (applicants)/Debra Diane Davis, administrator of the Estate of Montie Wood Gibson Jr. (owner-deceased): Request amendment of special use permit SUP-17-02 (approved by the Board of Supervisors on July 18, 2017) and approval of a new site development plan to construct a separate 10MW solar power plant as Phase 2 of a 20MW solar power plant previously approved under SUP-16-01. The purpose of the request is to assign the special use permit to a new permit holder (“Hecate Energy Gun Barrel Road Solar LLC”) and to make substantive modifications to the site development plan including stormwater management modifications and reconfiguration of solar panel locations. The subject property is zoned Agricultural-Open Space-Conservation (AOC), identified as Tax Map #27-A-5, and is located on the north side of Lord Fairfax Highway (U.S. 340) with frontage on the west side of Gun Barrel Road (Rt. 644), north side of Double Tollgate Road (Rt. 670), north side of Highland Corners Road (Rt. 669), and east side of Stonewall Jackson Highway (U.S. 522) in the White Post Election District. 

Public Hearing Notice

Any person desiring to speak on the above matter should appear at the Public Hearing on Nov. 4. Written copies of statements are requested but not required. Clarke County does not discriminate on the basis of handicapped status in admission to its programs and activities. Accommodations will be made for handicapped persons upon prior request. For more information, contact the Department of Planning (second floor, Berryville-Clarke County Government Center) weekdays between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. at (540) 955-5132.

Brandon Stidham
Director of Planning

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