A handful of property owners and opponents of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline celebrated a victory in the ongoing permitting process Monday, when a Nelson County board dismissed requests by project developers to cross a number of floodplain areas.
During its meeting Monday night, the Nelson County Board of Zoning Appeals dismissed “for lack of standing” applications for variances from the ACP to cross seven properties in floodplain areas in the county. Seven of the 11 total variance applications submitted by the ACP were dismissed Monday because the ACP has not obtained easement agreements yet for those seven properties.
The lack of easement agreements constitutes the “lack of standing” required by Virginia law for such variance applications, according to the BZA’s legal counsel, David Shreve.
