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PB RESOLUTION 2024-007: Site Plan Approval/Condition Modification
Carrowmoor Large-Scale Solar Energy System
Tax Parcel No. 27.-1-15.2
1358 Mecklenburg Road
Town of Ithaca Planning Board, February 20, 2024
WHEREAS:
1. This action involves consideration of approval of a modification to the Site Plan for the
proposed Carrowmoor large-scale community solar photovoltaic system project located at
1358 Mecklenburg Road. The Planning Board granted final site plan approval on November
7, 2023, for a 5MWac single-axis sun tracking solar array system on approximately 30-acres
of land along with two inverter/transformer equipment pads, solar energy battery storage,
new overhead utility poles, an eight-foot-tall perimeter fence, stormwater management
facilities, access drive, and other site elements. The modification involves moving the
medium-voltage line so that it runs parallel along the Mecklenburg Road frontage instead of
crossing through a farm field on the property. The Planning Board will also consider
modifying condition “a” from Resolution No. 2023-032 related to the receipt of an Army
Corps of Engineers Jurisdictional Letter. This is a Type I Action under the State
Environmental Quality Review Act for which the Planning Board issued a negative
declaration of environmental significance on September 5, 2023. Rancich Family Limited
Partnership, Owner; Nexamp Solar, Applicant; Ryan McCune, Agent;
2. The Town of Ithaca Planning Board granted final site plan approval for this project on
November 7, 2023, after establishing itself as lead agency in the environmental review on
June 20, 2023, and issuing a negative declaration of environmental significance and granting
preliminary site plan approval on September 5, 2023;
3. The proposed modifications to the project explained in Whereas #1 above require
reconsideration by the Town of Ithaca Planning Board;
4. This action is a Type I Action for which the Town of Ithaca Planning Board, acting as lead
agency with respect to this project, has made a negative determination of environmental
significance, after reviewing and accepting as adequate a Full Environmental Assessment
Form Part 1, submitted by the applicant, Parts 2 and 3, prepared by Town Planning staff, and
other application materials; and
5. The Planning Board, at a public hearing held on February 20, 2024, has reviewed and
accepted as adequate plans prepared by LaBella, titled “Carrowmoor Solar, 1358
Mecklenburg Road, Ithaca, NY 14850,” including revised sheets C002- Revised Site Plan,
C202- Site And Utility Plan, C203- Turning Movements, C302- Grading And Erosion
Control Plan And Road Profile, dated 01/04/2023, revised January 2024, and other
application materials;
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED:
1. That the Town of Ithaca Planning Board hereby modifies condition “a” in Resolution No.
2023-032, by deleting the condition and the requirement for a Jurisdictional Determination
letter issued by the Army Corps of Engineers; and
2. That the Town of Ithaca Planning Board hereby reaffirms Site Plan Approval for the
proposed revisions to the Carrowmoor Solar project, located at 1358 Mecklenburg Road, as
described in Whereas #1 and in the materials listed in Whereas #3 above, subject to the
following conditions:
a. Before issuance of a building permit, submission to the Planning Department of a copy of
NYSDOT Highway work permit(s),
b. Before issuance of a building permit, scheduling of a coordination meeting with the
Applicant’s Environmental Monitor, and the Town Engineering, Planning, and Codes
Departments,
c. Before issuance of a building permit, approval of the Decommissioning Plan and Bond
by the Attorney for the Town and the Engineering Department, and
d. Before issuance of any Certificates of Compliance, submission of a copy of the final
Medium Voltage approval and signoff from NYSEG, following its final design review of
the project.
Moved: Ariel Casper Seconded: Bill Arms
Vote: ayes—Casper, Kaufman, Wilcox, Arms, Cameron and McGurk