FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP – Officials in Freehold Township are putting forward a plan to redevelop the former Lone Pine Landfill site by permitting a solar energy facility to be constructed on the property.
On June 14, Township Committee members introduced an ordinance that will, if adopted, implement the Lone Pine Landfill redevelopment plan. The proposed ordinance will also rezone the former contaminated landfill property on Burke Road from rural environmental to the Lone Pine Landfill redevelopment area.
Burke Road is off Elton-Adelphia Road (Route 524).
A public hearing on the ordinance is scheduled for June 28. The governing body may adopt the ordinance that evening.
According to the ordinance, the redevelopment plan seeks to permit a solar energy facility on the site, while also allowing existing landfill maintenance and associated remediation activities to occur unimpeded.
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Freehold Township may permit solar energy facility on former landfill site
