Start community engagement *before* you've lost the people.
“So I think we’ll just be taking a look at our project and see how we may be able to support folks that are voluntarily participating and be able to bring the community a lot of the benefits these projects can provide,” the developer said.
Among the cited reasons were “vast use of farmland converted to industrial solar,” construction impacts on busing routes and “unreasonable diminishment of farmland and trees.”