Speakers at a hearing on an application for a solar farm on West Hill Road say wildlife living in a core forest area may have to move for the solar, but the impact to the overall forest will be minimal. During Tuesday’s Siting Council hearing, City Council members and attorneys discussed the application by Lodestar Energy to develop a 3-megawatt ground-mounted solar photovoltaic electric generating facility on 41 acres on West Hill Road. The public was not invited to speak Tuesday. In February, the Siting Council granted approval for Lodestar to put in a 3-megawatt solar farm next door to Country Woods Condominiums on Lovers Lane. The city also objected to that application but did not become an intervener in the process. A solar farm is also going up at the former landfill and there are two other solar farms in the city, Carbone said.
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