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Docket Number: 2024-53
Planning Commissioners Date: October 15, 2024
Time: 1:30 p.m.
Board of Commissioners Date: October 30, 2024
Time: 10:00 a.m.
Case Number: USR24-0014
Applicant: Magnum Feedyard Co., LLC, c/o Taelor Solar 1, LLC
Planner: Chris Gathman
Request: A Site Specific Development Plan and Use by Special Review Permit for the construction of a 1041 Major Facility of a Public Utility, including a Solar Energy Facility (SEF) (solar arrays) with a generating capacity up to 650 megawatt AC; a Battery Energy Storage Facility planned for 650 MWh with a possible increase to up to 1,300 MWh; a substation (constructed and owned by the applicant) to interconnect the project to the high voltage transmission system; an operations area, including an operations and maintenance building, possible water storage, materials storage and parking; an on-site communication system (communication lines); Meteorological Stations (approximately 15 high, on posts); up to seven (7) construction trailers and ten (10) conex containers during construction and up to four (4) conex containers, post-construction, for parts storage, outside of subdivisions and historic townsites in the A (Agricultural) Zone District.
Legal Description: All of Section 1 except part of the W1/2 beginning 600’S of NW Cor S2340’ E130’ N2340’ W130’ to beginning; all of Sections 2, and 3; part of the E1/2 and part of the W1/2 of Section 10; part of the W1/2 of Section 11; part of the NW1/4 NW1/4 of Section 14; part of the NE1/4 of Section 15, in Township 2 North, and all of Sections 33 and 34; the S1/2 of Section 35; part of the S1/2 of Section 32, in Township 3 North, all located in Range 61 West of the 6th P.M., Weld County, Colorado.
Location: 4300 acres (on multiple parcels), located two (2) miles south of the Interstate 76/County Road 91 intersection, 0.75 miles north of the County Road 20/County Road 93 intersection, west of and adjacent to the Weld County/Morgan County Line, approximately 7.5 miles east of County Road 75.5. (See Legal Description for precise location)
Size: 4300 acres, more or less
Dated: September 25, 2024
Published: September 27, 2024, in the Greeley Tribune