Experts Weigh in with Conflicting Positions on County Solar

Experts Weigh in with Conflicting Positions on County Solar Policy


As reported last week, Alameda County’s Agricultural Advisory Committee (AAC) on June 22 unanimously agreed to send a solar policy to the Board of Supervisors but didn’t address two significant issues. After the meeting, The Independent obtained statements from those who could not be reached before the June 24 issue deadline.
The motion concerning options to address the Williamson Act failed to gain a majority, meaning no recommendation was provided to the Board. In addition, the Committee didn’t consider a land-use designation policy change that would have created a distinction between east county’s three main land-use designations — large parcel agriculture, resource management and water management lands. The recommendation would have questioned whether agrivoltaics — the use of solar panels to benefit agricultural productions — should be allowed on all three land-use designations in east county or only on the one for intensive ag use.

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