The contrast between high hopes of developers supporting bills like HB 711 and the actual realities of the bill’s language highlights an important fact: you want to win at the county level, because your special use permit hearing and vote is both your first chance and, almost certainly, your last chance to get the project approved.
Jared Burden
Jared Burden is a Harrisonburg-based partner with the Virginia-based law firm GreeneHurlocker who works extensively in Virginia counties assisting developers in permitting utility scale and community solar facilities. He can be contacted at jburden@greenehurlocker.com.