After many residents and interested groups expressed a need for
more time to adequately go through the Solargen draft environmental
impact report, the San Benito County Planning Department announced
an extension today of the 45-day comment period for 15 more
days.
After many residents and interested groups expressed a need for more time to adequately go through the Solargen draft environmental impact report, the San Benito County Planning Department announced an extension today of the 45-day comment period for 15 more days.
“It’s pretty standard,” Assistant Planner Byron Turner said. “We were asked to extend it another 45 days, but we felt that was a little much. We thought 15 days was a sufficient amount of time to review.”
The new due date for all comments regarding the Solargen proposal for a solar farm in the Panoche Valley is Aug. 31.
At Wednesday’s public comment meeting, many speakers asked for an extension of the comment period, with some stating that the document was too thick to review thoroughly.
The document is more than 200 pages long and most of the document is dedicated to the biological impacts of the project.
If approved, plans call for the 420-megawatt solar farm on 4,700 acres in the Panoche Valley in southern San Benito County.
