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B
A
You
want
to
speak
on
that
particular
topic.
We
do
have
a
a
public
hearing
on
polling
places,
so
you
don't
have
to
sign
up
for
that
one,
but
the
action
item
the
resolution
on
whether
we're
gonna
advertise
for
a
public
hearing
on
solar-
that's
not
a
public
hearing,
so
you
would
need
to
sign
up
for
the
citizen
comment
period.
A
I'd
like
to
call
this
bedford
county
board
of
supervisors
meeting
to
order,
thank
you
all
for
being
in
attendance,
especially
troop
183.
Thank
you
for
coming
out.
Hopefully,
this
will
be
not
extremely
boring
and
it
may
be
a
little
entertaining,
although
normally
it's
pretty
boring
and
I'm
going
to
remind
everyone
to
turn
off
their
cell
phones
or
at
least
put
them
on
silent
and
if
you're
wearing
a
hat.
A
C
A
A
I
did
ask
everyone
to
sign
up
to
speak
ahead
of
time,
so
I
could
allocate
I'm
of
get
five
people
which
makes
it
easy
because
normally
you're
allocated
three
minutes
and
it's
a
15
minute
period,
so
everyone
still
gets
three
minutes
just
so
you
know,
because
I
understand
that
there's
people
that
are
interested
in
the
in
the
solar
item
that's
coming
up
later
in
the
meeting
which
hopefully
won't
take
too
long.
That's
not
a
public
hearing.
So
this
is
the
time
to
to
speak
to
that.
B
I'd
like
to
thank
the
planning,
commission
and
staff
for
all
the
time
they've
spent
working
on
the
draft
solar
ordinance
and
the
board
of
supervisors
for
scheduling
a
review
of
the
document
tonight.
As
you
know,
the
planning
commission
and
the
staff
have
spent
the
past
year
and
a
half
researching
and
drafting
a
comprehensive
solar
ordinance.
B
The
draft
ordinance
was
recommended
to
the
board
by
the
planning
commission
last
september,
by
a
vote
of
six
to
one,
the
solar
ordinance
before
you
incorporates
lessons
learned
from
the
challenges
experienced
during
the
construction
of
the
alta
vista
solar
project
in
campbell
county.
Specifically,
the
draft
ordinance
incorporates
five
erosion
and
sediment
control
measures
that
will
help
prevent
the
same
storm,
water
and
erosion
challenges
from
occurring
in
bedford
county.
B
The
landowners
we
are
working
with,
many
of
whom
are
here
tonight,
are
encouraged
by
the
progress
that
has
been
made
on
the
draft
solar
ordinance
as
it
will
give
them
the
opportunity
to
put
their
land
to
a
higher
value
use,
while
keeping
the
land
in
their
family
urban
grid
and
the
landowners
are
eager
to
move
forward
with
a
proposed
cardinal
solar
project,
and
we
would
respectfully
ask
for
your
support
to
take
the
next
step
in
the
process
by
directing
the
planning
commission
to
hold
a
public
hearing
on
the
ordinance.
I
thank
you.
A
E
E
It
was
back
in
the
middle
of
nowhere
and
you
get
by
with
a
whole
lot
in
the
middle
of
nowhere.
And
the
other
thing
I
want
to
know
is
there
going
to
be
a
windmills
up
here
on
this
mountain,
and
I
guess
it's
watertight
county
over
on
the
other
side
of
james
rubber.
They
can't
find
anybody
wants
to
buy
electricity,
and
I
hadn't
checked
my
phone
bill.
I
mean
my
light
bill
lately
and
somebody
told
me
how
much
had
gone
up.
E
E
That
said,
if
it
was
over
eight
for
an
acre
that
I'd
be
in
violation,
so
I
I'd
have
to
pay
the
money
back.
Unfortunately,
it
was
less
than
eight
or
an
acre.
So
I
said
what,
if
it's,
what
if
I'd
have
drained
80
acres
and
they
said:
well,
you
you're,
a
farmer,
you
just
don't
think
all
the
money
you
got
off
the
government,
which
is
twelve
thousand
dollars.
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E
E
F
Good
evening,
members
of
the
board,
my
name-
is
russell
morgan,
2924
smith,
mountain
lake,
parkway
host
from
district
3.,
I'm
here
for
the
for
the
board
to
ask
the
board
to
go
forward
with
a
public
hearing
on
solo
farms
in
our
county.
Climate
change
is
real
droughts
in
the
west,
the
worst
in
22
years.
It's
on
record
increase
in
flooding
in
the
middle
part
of
the
u.s,
not
due
to
hurricanes
increase
in
the
number
of
hurricanes
and
their
strength
increase
in
temperature
nationwide.
F
Ocean
levels
are
rising
with
it
with
excuse
me,
with
more
coastal
flooding,
increasing
the
number
of
tornadoes
in
the
middle
part
of
the
united
states
as
well
as
here
in
virginia
all.
This
is
proven
back
and
will
continue
unless
carbon
emissions
are
reduced.
Arch
pelican
is
already
building
solar
farms
and
wind
farms.
Beautiful
canada
can
help
with
the
climate
change,
as
well
as
receive
additional
tax
revenue
at
a
considerable
rate
and
no
cost
infrastructure
wise
to
the
county.
F
G
G
G
H
H
H
H
15
years
ago,
with
three
committees
in
mind,
according
to
your
board
of
supervisors,
marketing
production,
education
and
events
and
land
conservation
and
preservation,
most
of
the
time,
it's
real
easy
to
really
promote
something
and
get
behind
it.
This
is
one
of
those
times
that
we
have
not
only
two
but
possibly
three
of
those
committees,
all
three
of
those
committees,
kind
of
button
heads
and
I
can
understand
anyone
who
has
a
land
and
doesn't
have
the
desire
to
use
it
any
longer,
would
see
this
as
great.
H
Take
the
heart
out
of
my
farm,
so
I
think
that's
one
of
the
key
issues.
The
other
thing
is
some
of
the
issues
that
the
gentleman
brought
up
about
erosion,
also
landfill.
When
we
talk
about
putting
this
bond
up
to,
to
make
sure
this
thing
can
be
disassembled,
it's
a
little
bit
if
you,
if
you
talk
to
the
people,
professors,
people
who
really
study
this
stuff,
it's
going
to
be
hard
to
bring
that
land
back
to
farm.
H
I
H
I
hope
they
will.
I
don't
want
them
to
have
to
worry
about
what
they're
going
to
do
with
that
patch
of
land
over
there
and
the
other
big
concern
was:
what
do
we
do
with
that
toxic
unrecyclable
material
we've
got
that
bond,
but
who
knows
what
that's
going
to
cost
in
30
years?
We
know
the
kind
of
problems
we
have
with
landfill
today.
H
What
will
that
be
like
in
30
years?
What
are
we
going
to
do
with
that
stuff?
I
don't
think
anybody
knows
what
it's
going
to
cost
to
do
that.
So,
with
these
issues
in
mind,
you
know
the
house
just
presented
one
more
statement:
the
house
just
passed
a
bill.
The
senate,
I
think
just
passed
it
also
that'll
regulate
these
that'll,
be
addressed
very
shortly.
A
A
J
J
J
The
second
one
is
a
grant
for
fourteen
thousand
one
hundred
and
twelve
dollars
to
the
department
of
motor
vehicles
for
speed
enforcement
and
the
final
one
is
a
grant
in
the
amount
of
five
thousand
four
hundred
and
sixty
dollars
again
to
the
department
of
motor
vehicles
for
occupant
protection
enforcement.
Those
are
the
four
items.
A
A
F
A
A
All
right
got
a
motion
to
approve
from
mr
tuck
a
second
from
mr
scott.
All
those
in
favor
say
aye
aye
any
opposed
motion
carries
next.
We
have
a
public
hearing
presentation.
This
is
consideration
of
an
ordinance
amending
chapter
6
elections,
specifically
article
3,
precincts
and
polling
places
to
amend
division,
3
satellite
absentee
voting,
ordinance,
022-822-02.
L
There
are
two
locations
for
satellite
voting
centers
for
the
primary
it
was
at
fallen,
creek
center
chapel
and
for
the
general
election
was
the
bedford
county
gym.
Unfortunately,
the
way
state
code
is
written.
We
have
to
reevaluate
those
sites
every
year
and
what
is
before,
the
board
for
consideration
tonight
is
to
maintain
those
same
two
locations
for
both
the
june
primary
and
the
november
general
election.
D
A
A
A
All
right,
mrs
parker.
Yes,
mr
johnson,
yes
bainsley!
Yes,
mr
scott,
yes,
senator
davis,
yes,
the
chair
votes.
Yes,
thank
you,
mr
chair
motion
carrier.
Next
we
have
action
and
discussion
items.
This
is
consideration
of
a
resolution
to
initiate
the
public
hearing
process
for
utility
scale.
Solar
energy
facility
use
text,
amendment
to
the
zoning
ordinance
resolution
r,
zero.
Two
two
eight
dash
staff
presentation
by
community
development
director,
jordan,
mitchell.
O
Thank
you,
mr
chairman.
I
feel
like
a
little
bit
of
my
thunder
was
stolen
by
mr
probst.
I
think
he
said
about
everything
I
really
wanted
to.
Let
you
know
tonight.
As
you
know,
the
board
of
supervisors
initiated
this
text,
amendment
process
back
in
october,
26
2020,
when
you
asked
the
planning
commission
to
develop
an
ordinance
for
you,
so
we
this
is
the
end
result
of
that
ordinance.
We
feel
as
though
the
the
majority
of
201,
as
mentioned
earlier,
was
spent.
O
You
know
researching
talking
with
other
localities
around
us
to
try
to
see
what
kind
of
issues
and
successes
they've
had
with
them,
and
I
think
what
we
found
out
was
is
that
the
the
larger
the
site
is
and
the
poorly
sighted
ones
you
know
the
more
hills,
the
more
so
forth.
I
think
you
get
the
picture
there.
Ideally,
I
would
think
you
would
want
one
of
these
sites
to
be
somewhere.
That
would
not
be
prime
farmland.
O
O
We've
we've
increased
some
of
our
erosion
sediment
control
measures
that
will
need
to
be
approved
by
the
department
of
environmental
quality
and
we're
currently
working
through
that
process
and
getting
that
approval
from
them,
and
I
think
the
biggest
concern
from
our
standpoint
is
a
staffing
standpoint
from
this.
You
know
we
have
the
third
party
inspections
as
being
something
in
there
that
would
kind
of
take
place
where
they
would
do.
Third
party
plan
review.
O
So
yeah,
I
guess
what
I'm
trying
to
say
to
you
tonight
is-
is
that
we
feel
this
is
the
ordinance
the
planning
commission
approved.
I
I
think,
the
more
I
think
about
it.
You
know
I
will
probably
lose
sleep
of
thinking
of
something
we
missed
as
part
of
that
process,
and
I
also
have
some
concerns
about
it
really
meshing.
O
This
will
obviously
make
some
of
those
areas
less
scenic.
There
are
some.
The
smaller
sites
are
just
easier
to
deal
with
from
the
standpoint
of
you
probably
could
hide
those
more.
I
believe
the
morgan
site
that's
mentioned
here
tonight
is
one
of
those
sites.
That
would
be
almost
completely
hidden
from
view
and
we
went
through
this
ordinance
process.
We
tried
to
make
sure
that
you
would
get
schematics,
so
you
would
know
what
it's
going
to
look
like,
hopefully
down
the
road,
the
bonding
issue.
I
think
mr
powers
brought
that
up.
O
O
So
if
you
have
any
questions,
if
you
have
any
yes
questions,
I've
got
kevin
leamy
here
with
me
tonight.
If
I
can't
answer
it,
I'm
sure
he
can
but
yeah.
The
planning
commission
also
wanted
me
to
reiterate
to
you
tonight
that
this,
by
giving
you
this
draft
ordinance,
it
is
not
an
approval
from
them
that
you
should
initiate
the
process.
They
did
not
have
any
bearing
whatsoever
on
whether
or
not
you
should
approve
or
deny
the
issues.
So
I
just
want
to
make
that
very
clear
tonight.
O
A
C
N
Mr
mitchell,
it
would
appear
from
listening
to
you
that
there
are
many
many
uncertainties
that
your
staff
I
mean.
Obviously
you
guys
did
your
due
diligence
the
best
you
could
on
this,
while
also
performing
your
regular
duties
and
and
doing
them
very
well.
I
might
have
so.
It
appears
that
there
are
many
uncertainties
with
this
solar
facilities
plan
that
are
yet
unknown
and
it
sounds
to
me
like
if
we
dive
into
it
too
quickly,
we
could
be
setting
ourselves
up
for
trouble
in
this
county.
O
I
think
there's
a
lot
of
value
in
waiting
and
seeing
how
other
localities
are
guinea
pigs.
I
guess
you
would
say
I
mean
I
I
think
the
problem
from
our
standpoint
is.
Is
you
know
our
residential
inspectors
are
doing
somewhere
between
four
or
500
inspections
a
month?
Just
from
the
residential
side,
we
have
one
commercial
inspector,
mr
spinner.
I
believe
kevin's
he's
maxed
out,
I
mean
there's
he's
passing
work
on
to
kevin
to
go
out
and
do
inspections,
that's
how
busy
we
are
right
now.
O
The
big
concern
that
I
have
is
is
that
you
know
talking
with
campbell
county.
They
would
go
get
a
complaint
on
these
sites.
We've
had
two
of
the
three
rainiest
years
on
record
over
the
last
three
year
period
and
just
going
out
there,
and
you
would
have
to
spend
day
maybe
two
days
at
these
sites
to
be
able
to
take
a
look
at
them.
O
They
have
100
plus
storm
water
ponds
on
them
at
one
time,
which
is
one
reason
why
we
tried
to
limit
how
much
they
can
disturb
at
one
time
when
our
ordinance
to
try
to
keep
that
level
down,
but
we
we
would
anticipate,
be
having
to
either
do
one
or
two
things.
If
you
wanted
to
move
forward
with
it,
we
would
probably
need
to
hire
somebody
to
be
able
to
deal
with
it
from
inspection
standpoint,
or
you
know.
The
ordinance
also
mentions
us
being
able
to
get
contract
with.
O
N
Recall
mr
leamy
standing
before
us
and
spending
over
half
an
hour
telling
us
the
entire
permit
process,
that's
required
for
for
building
a
a
development
and,
and
I'm
not
making
fun
of
you,
sir.
I'm
I
mean
the
detail.
That's
required
from
you
all
before
you
can
improve
a
project
is
immense,
with
state
and
federal
and,
and
you
know
guidelines,
so
so
it
would
seem
to
me
that,
as
as
busy
as
you
are
a
burden,
as
you
all
are
with
your
current
workload
again,
it
makes
no
sense
to
move
this
idea
forward
at
this
time.
O
From
a
staffing
perspective,
like
I
said
you
would
have
to
make,
if
you
did
want
to
do
it,
we
would
just
have
to
have
some
different
things
in
place.
We
would
have
to
know
that
you're,
okay,
with
obviously
having
a
third
party
person,
come
in
and
review
those
plans
for
us
campbell
county
is
a
good
indicator
of
what
we're
going
to
experience.
O
They
are
the
vsmp
authority.
Just
much
like
we
are.
I
talked
to
the
director
in
pennsylvania,
county
and
you
know
they
have
a.
They
have
a
lot
of
sites
too,
but
they
aren't
the
vsmp
authorities,
so
they
won't
be
the
people
out
there
going
out
and
dealing
with
the
complaint
side
of
things
or
reviewing
those
plans
and
so
forth.
We
will
be
the
intended
doing
that.
O
No
this
this
was
something
that
was
decided,
as
I
mentioned
about
a
month
ago.
Technically,
it
was
finalized
back
in
in
november.
When
we
had
our
last
meeting
the
planning
commission,
I
took
it
back
to
them
one
more
time,
just
to
make
sure
that
they
were
okay
before
we
brought
this
before
you.
The
biggest
thing
that
we
had
a
discussion
about
really
was
is
what
would
if
we
were
to
move
forward
with
an
ordinance
we'd,
be
better
off
to
have
a
size
limitation
on
the
sites.
O
The
planning
commission
kind
of
was
hung
up
on
a
number
somewhere
between
20
and
25
megawatts
that
was
kind
of
what
they
were
hanging
at,
because
we
did
visit
some
of
those
sites
in
campbell
county
and
some
of
the
feedback
we
got
from
from
their
staff
was
that
those
were
manageable
sites,
even
by
our
current
staff,
they
should
be
manageable,
so
it
just
depends
on
what
you
want.
I
think
from
solar
industry
standpoint.
O
O
M
D
O
Usually
not
I,
I
don't
know
that
the
board
has
directly
asked
them
to
develop
many
ordinances
in
my
career
here
as
well,
but
I
did
ask
them
to.
I
did
ask
them:
do
they
want
to
pass
that
along
to
you
all,
and
they
were
adamant
that
they
were
only
requested
to
develop
the
ordinance
not
to
levy
a
decision
to
you
on
whether
or
not
they
felt
that
the
use
was
something
that
we
should
pass
or
not?
D
K
If
we
squash
the
public's
ability
to
debate
in
discourse
with
us
on
this
issue,
they
will
not
come
and
talk
to
us
on
other
issues
down
the
road,
and
I
think
that
that
piece
is
very
important
whether
we
ultimately
vote
an
ordinance
in
or
not.
I
think
the
public
should
have
the
opportunity
to
discourse
with
us
about
this
before
a
final
decision,
but.
K
C
C
I
don't
know
if
the
appropriate
thing
is
to
table
it
until
we
get
a
better
handle
on
it,
but
for
myself
and
my
own
vote,
I
don't
know
enough
about
it
to
vote
up
or
down.
I
know
what
my
personal
preference
might
be,
but
to
be
fair
to
the
people
that
are
speaking,
I
think
they
deserve
a
chance
to
be
heard.
I
just
don't.
I
don't
think
a
public
hearing
is
validated
at
this
moment
at
this
point
because
of
where
the
state
is.
I
think
we
should
have
time
to
evaluate.
N
Mr
chair,
I'm
I'm
opposed
to
to
to
moving
this
forward.
I
I
grew
up
in
agriculture
and
my
my
lifelong
dream
was
to
farm.
My
father
worked
for
very
wealthy
men.
Men
like
j.c,
penny,
penney
and
the
likes
of
that
managing
their
farms,
and-
and
I
grew
up
you
know,
along
with
him,
working
on
these
farms
and
big
ranches,
and
my
my
goal
was
to
have
my
own
place.
Unfortunately,
I
wasn't
lucky
enough
to
inherit
a
farm,
so
I
got
into
a
business.
N
And
there
are
already
now
folks
who
are
buying
up
farmland.
Betting
on
the
come
that
they're
going
to
be
able
to
sign
contracts
with
these
solar
companies
and
and
have
them
in
bedford,
county
and
enjoy
themselves
miles
and
miles
away
from
bedford
county.
Well,
meanwhile,
we're
left
to
live
here
and
it's
going
to
drive
the
cost
of
land
up
so
high
farmland
in
particular,
which
is
best
suited
for
these
solar
panels.
N
But
folks,
our
children
and
our
grandchildren
will
not
be
able
to
afford
to
do
the
same
things
that
we've
done.
They
will
not
enjoy
the
same
natural
beauty
that
we
have
two
months
ago,
when
we
sat
in
our
meeting
for
the
comprehensive
plan
for
the
future
of
bedford
county,
we
put
agriculture
first
and
along
with
tourism.
N
They
count
on
us
to
make
good
decisions
for
them
and
that's
our
responsibilities
to
make
the
best
long-term
decisions
for
the
this
county
and
as
administrations
change
at
the
state
and
federal
level.
So
changes
the
you
know
the
plans
go
from
solar
which
or
to
nuclear
or
to
coal,
there's,
there's
no
reliability
on
any
future
administration
and
what
they're
going
to
do
so
again,
mr
chair,
I'm
going
to
say,
I
don't
see
any
reason
to
move
this
forward.
A
G
A
If
it
wasn't
for
the
federal
tax
credits,
this
wouldn't
even
be
a
consideration,
so
it
is,
and
so
it's
not
free
market
capitalism
by
the
way
when
it's
being
subsidized
by
federal
tax
dollars,
that's
called
crony
capitalism
and
it's
p
the
government
picking
winners
and
losers.
The
government
has
decided
that
they're
going
to
pick
solar
as
a
winner
and
pick
everything
else
to
be
a
loser.
A
So
if
you
want
to
do
ten
acres,
that's
I
mean
10
10
megawatts.
That's,
50,
acres
and
100
megawatts
be
500
acres,
a
lot
of
land
full
power
plant.
You
could
have
a
thousand
megawatt
coal
power
plant,
I
can
guarantee,
it
doesn't
take
5
000
acres
and
the
solar
panels
that
are
created
vast
majority
of
those
unless
they
are
being
subsidized
by
federal
tax
dollars,
are
being
built
in
china
who
power
those
facilities
using
coal-fired
power
power
plants,
and
then
they
put
them
on
ships
and
bring
them
over
here,
and
then
they
build
them.
A
This
is
supposed
to
make
us
feel
good,
that
it's
this
green
energy
and
that
it's
going
to
save
the
planet,
but
it
takes
energy
to
build
them,
takes
energy
to
ship
them,
and
then
it
creates
this
waste
that
we
have
to
deal
with
in
our
community
when
it's
it's
over
with
the
efficiencies
are
continually
changing
in
a
few
years.
It
could
be
that
it
only
takes
two
and
a
half
acres
to
produce
a
megawatt
instead
of
five,
and
so
this
is
just
early.
A
The
the
other
thing
about
bedford,
county
in
particular,
is
we
have
rolling
topography
and
with
rolling
topography,
you
tend
to
have
more
runoff.
These
solar
panels
are
designed
to
capture
the
sun's
energy
right.
Well,
what
else
captures
the
sun's
energy
but
plants
the
things
that
stabilize
the
soil?
A
You
run
off
your
topsoil
and
it's
all
types
of
problems
when
you
have
rolling
topography
and
as
as
our
presenter
present
tonight,
he
he
explained
that
the
the
areas
in
which
it's
not
good
for
farming
that
might
make
good
for
a
solar
facility,
the
very
areas
that
are
going
to
have
the
rolling
topography,
the
worst
slopes
or
the
the
areas
that
you're
not
going
to
see.
But
those
are
the
areas
that
are
going
to
cause
more
problems.
A
So
I
you
know,
I
I
appreciate
that
some
people
would
would
clearly
benefit,
but
I
would
suggest
that
if,
if
you
don't
want
to
farm
the
land,
then
lease
it
to
someone
who
wants
to
farm
it
or
sell
it
to
someone
that
wants
to
farm
it.
But
for
the
last
16
years
we've
had
a
comprehensive
plan.
That's
tried
to
preserve
the
agricultural
community
in
bedford
county
and
when
I
first
got
on
this
board,
I
understood
that
the
forest
area
which
I
represent
is
area.
That's
slated
for
growth,
we're
sort
of
the
the
zinc.
A
A
A
C
If
there's
no
more
discussion,
I'd
like
to
make
a
motion
that
we
table
this
until
we
get
and
ask
our
planning
commission
and
our
ag
board
to
give
us
a
recommendation
based
on
their
research
and
see
what
the
state
comes
out
with
after
this,
I
just
I
would
make.
I
would
like
to
make
a
motion
that
we
tabled
this
to
a.
B
A
I
A
I
A
I
A
I
A
N
A
J
And
when
are
you
going
to
get
it
done
so
we're
going
to
have
a
we're
going
to
have
a
session
on
the
march
the
10th
in
order
to
go
through
the
plan,
like
I
said,
divide
out
assignments
establish
a
tracking
tool,
so
we
know
how
to
track
our
progress
and
report
back
to
the
board
of
supervisors
on
progress
of
different
items
in
that
strategic
plan.
So
just
wanted
to
alert
you
that
on
march
10th
we'll
be
in
that
a
staff
planning
retreat.
So
that's
all
I
had.
J
D
A
J
Our
next
meeting,
we
do
have
a
budget
work
session
next
monday
at
seven
at
five
o'clock
and
we're
going
to
meet
downstairs
in
the
ground
floor,
training
room
that
will
just
be
a
budget
work
session
and
and
then
march
14th
we'll
be
back
up
here.
We'll
have
another
budget
work
session
at
five
and
a
regular
meeting
at
seven
and
we'll
be
seeing
each
other,
I
think
every
monday
night
for
the
next
five
or
six
weeks.
So
it's.