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GOVERNMENT <br />ENTITY <br />WHERE <br />PERMITTED <br />HOW PERMITTED <br />LAND USE <br />BUFFERS <br />SETBACKS/HEIGHT <br />DECOMMISSIONING <br />ORANGE <br />Allowed in the <br />Based on intensity of power <br />Class B and Class A <br />None specified. <br />• Notify Planning within <br />COUNTY <br />majority of general <br />generated: <br />Solar Facilities all <br />Typical array has to be <br />60 days prior to <br />use zoning districts. <br />• Accessory use (under <br />require a 50 ft. wide <br />approximately 50 feet <br />cessation of activities. <br />Permit process based <br />20 kilowatts) — Staff <br />land use buffer <br />from trees achieving <br />• Facility removed within <br />on intensity of project. <br />approval. <br />height of 12 feet to <br />12 months of cessation. <br />avoid shadow from <br />• Between 20 — 100 <br />foliage. <br />• Required to re- stabilize <br />(anywhere from 10 to <br />property and obtain <br />25 individual panels) <br />Resulting setback has <br />required permits (i.e. <br />kilowatts — Class B <br />been approximately 100 <br />Erosion Control) to do <br />Special Use Permit <br />feet for the solar <br />so. <br />(SUP). <br />projects we have <br />approved so far. <br />• Record document <br />• Over 100 kilowatts <br />rescinding any recorded <br />(anywhere from 25 to <br />Height limit: <br />Special Use Permit. <br />40 individual panels) — <br />• Accessory and Class <br />Class A Special Use <br />B SUP — based on <br />Permit <br />district <br />• Class A SUP — 40 ft. <br />limit for arrays and <br />structures. <br />CHATHAM <br />Permitted (lots under <br />Based on lot size and <br />50 feet landscaped <br />• 50 ft. minimum <br />Removed at owner's expense <br />COUNTY <br />2 acres in size) in all <br />intended use: <br />buffer (lots under and <br />setback <br />within one hundred and <br />residential and <br />• Accessory use (no <br />over 2 acres). <br />eighty (180) days of <br />industrial districts. <br />power limit identified) <br />• 100 ft. setback from <br />determination by the <br />Use not permitted in <br />w <br />roadways (projects <br />Planning Department the <br />commercial districts. <br />• On property under 2 <br />on property over 2 <br />facility is no longer being <br />acres — staff approval <br />acres in area) <br />maintained in an operable <br />Permitted (lots over 2 <br />acres in size) through <br />• On property over 2 <br />• Height: 15 ft. <br />state or no longer supplying <br />Conditional Use <br />acres — Conditional Use <br />measured from <br />solar power. <br />Permit process in the <br />Pennit (i.e. rezoning <br />grade at base of <br />same residential and <br />and Special Use Permit) <br />solar collector. <br />industrial districts. <br />acted upon by Board of <br />Commissioners. <br />