Albemarle Supervisors update regulations on solar panels

Albemarle property owners who want to install solar-energy facilities or battery-storage systems now have an easier pathway to do so. At its July 16 meeting, the Board of Supervisors adopted a new ordinance regulating solar facilities as well as battery-energy storage systems.  Under the new regulations, “accessory” energy facilities are allowed in any zoning district […]

Albemarle hopes to become Virginia’s ‘next innovation economy’

Albemarle County is in the fourth year of updating its Comprehensive Plan, a document intended to guide the future. But work on a new economic development strategic plan is happening much faster.   “We’re not working on an economic development plan for a community that’s in decline,” said Steven Pedigo of Resonance, the firm hired […]