Land use · Staunton, Virginia

solar energy facility

Named in 2 of this ordinance’s zoning districts.

How this ordinance defines it

The operative definition is the local one. Codes routinely subdivide a category into tiers — “day care 2, family”, “group home 2” — and attach different permissions to each, so only Staunton’s own text settles what this covers.

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on the premises of the property upon which it is erected or displayed. " Solar energy facility " means an energy conversion system consisting of photovoltaic panels, support structures, battery energy storage systems, and associated control, conversion, and transmission

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planning commission in accordance with the provisions contained in Chapter 18.210 SCC: (1) Solar energy facility . (2) Other uses of the same general character and compatible with those uses permitted in SCC 18.75.020, Uses permitted, in this

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of cement, asphalt, lime, plaster, and plaster of paris. 4. Feed mills. 5. Solar energy facility . 6. Other uses of the same general character as those uses listed as uses permitted in this I-2 heavy industrial district

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Where it is allowed here

Conditional / special use2

Allowed only after a discretionary approval.