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Rezoning request for solar proposal hits delay as landowners learn of plans

Part of a site plan for a 10-acre Solar Energy Generating System along Woodmont Road, west of Hancock.

by Kate Shunney

Property owners near the site of a proposed solar energy array west of Hancock successfully postponed a rezoning hearing on the project, pushing a county decision into next week and prompting more attention to the project and its public hearing.

The Washington County Board of Zoning Appeals was supposed to hear the details of…