DeFUNIAK SPRINGS — Attorneys for Gulf Power and the Walton County Board of County Commissioners are working toward some resolution of the utility's legal challenge to a December commission decision to prohibit construction of a solar power generation facility on almost 900 acres in the north county.
In a May filing in Walton County Circuit Court, the county's land-use attorney Steven K. Hall notified Judge Jeffrey E. Lewis that Gulf Power and the county "are currently exploring opportunities for resolution of the matters raised" in a petition filed by the utility.
The filing, made May 10, asks for a 30-day extension for the county to file its response to the petition. Under that timeline, the response would be in a matter of days, absent any other related filings in the case in the intervening time.
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In the petition, filed on Feb. 26, Gulf Power seeks a court review of the commission's 3-2 decision last Dec. 22 — a decision subsequently ratified at a Jan. 26 commission meeting — to deny Gulf Power's application for a development order for an 868-acre tract between and around Harrison Road and Brown Road.
In connection with the request for a judicial review of the County commission's decision, Gulf Power is asking that the decision be voided and the issue be sent back to the commission for consideration in light of any new judicial determination on the decision not to issue a development order for the project.
In a March 15 order giving the county 60 days to respond to the Gulf Power filing — that deadline now apparently extended by mutual agreement — Lewis notes that the court can only grant or deny the petition for review of the commission decision.
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