(Chatham) — A developer has plans for a large power generation facility and data center in a rural stretch of Pittsylvania County. But specifics have not yet been released.
According to the Pittsylvania County Zoning page, a company called “BALICO, LLC” has applied for a rezoning request for 47 parcels of land from 16 landowners totaling over 22-hundred acres. The land is northeast of Chatham in the Sheva and Chalk Level communities, running along Motley, Transco and Mill Creek Roads.
The landowners are asking the 47 parcels be rezoned from Residential and Agricultural to M-2 Industrial; Heavy Industry. This would be for “a private utility…a natural gas power plant,” and an unspecified number of data centers.
The web page includes requests for rezoning from the 16 current landowners, but includes no specifics on the proposed power plant or data centers. It also includes several plat development proposals showing potential locations for the new facilities. It also shows the 47 parcels of land are not entirely contiguous.
Neighbors are planning a meeting at Mill Creek Community Church on October 30th to discuss the proposal.
Earlier this month, the county approved a Use Permit for the county’s first data center on South Boston Road just east of the Danville City Limits.
As it stands now, the Pittsylvania County Planning Commission will field the rezoning requests at their November meeting. It would have to be later ratified by the Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors.