FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — The members of the Freehold Township Planning Board have voted 6-2 to deny an applicant’s request for a use variance that would have permitted the construction of a solar energy facility at 56 Willow Brook Road.
The application filed by Willow Brook Solar was heard during the board’s Sept. 15 meeting by Chairman Jason Levy and board members Robert Shortmeyer, John Bazzurro, Leon Bruno Jr., Apryl Kurtz, Christopher Marion, John Krok and Matthew Barbieri.
In addition to requesting the use variance, Willow Brook Solar was seeking preliminary and final major site plan approval for its proposed solar energy project.
According to an executive summary of the application that was prepared by Township Engineer Timothy White, Willow Brook Solar was “proposing to install a 3.74 MW dc solar array consisting of 9,720 solar panels over approximately 9.4 acres of the…
Freehold Township planners deny use variance for solar energy facility
