Zoning approval for the Pulaski County portion of the Mammoth Solar project has been struck down in court. An order filed this week in Pulaski Superior Court found that the developer’s application for a special exception from the board of zoning appeals failed to meet the requirements of the county’s Unified Development Ordinance.
Among other things, it apparently lacked a fire protection plan, engineering certification, and site layout plan. While Mammoth Solar officials did promise to provide the information after the application was approved, the ordinance doesn’t allow that, according to the order from special judge Kim Hall.
He notes that it was county plan administrator’s job to determine if the application was complete, and that it shouldn’t have made it to the public hearing phase, let alone be approved. In order for the project to move forward, the BZA will have to redo the special exception process, with all the required documentation properly submitted with the application.
