West Penn Township supervisors are continuing to revamp parts of a township zoning ordinance that pertain to solar farms.

During Monday’s supervisors’ meeting, Solicitor Paul Datte presented supervisors with amendments that detail the decommissioning of solar energy collection devices.

“This is not the entirety of everything that we’ve been talking about,” Datte said.

The provisions he cited were taken from Schuylkill County ordinances that were approved last year and focus on decommissioning solar panels, along with security for the decommissioning process.

“What I would like to do is move these revisions forward immediately,” Datte said.

The board unanimously approved his suggestion.

A hearing on the revisions will be held at the 9 a.m. March 18 supervisors’ meeting.

Also during the meeting, it was noted that the company that purchased the former Villas Crossing Golf Course in West Penn Township hasn’t approached township officials with any plans.

“There has been no official submission,” board Chairman Tony Prudenti said Monday while addressing a resident who asked whether a solar farm would be constructed on the property.

Schuylkill County property records show that Solareit2-A II LLC recently bought the property, which includes 161 acres near 521 Golf Road, for just under $2 million.

According to its website, Solareit is a real estate company “focused on delivering solar and battery energy storage developers and landowners the maximum value for their land and leases.” The company notes that its three primary products are land purchase, lease purchase and solar/storage land loans.

Prudenti said that the company had previously contacted township engineer, ARRO Engineering, about the property. ARRO, in turn, prepared a comment and a rendering for the company, and then shared it with the township.

Prudenti said he hadn’t heard anything since then. To be sure, he checked with other township officials and office staff. Prudenti said that there hasn’t been any contact.

“As of right now, it’s just hearsay,” he said.

The resident who asked about the solar farm said he believed that the company would eventually do something with the property, given the price it paid for the land.

“I’m sure in the near future we will be seeing something,” Prudenti agreed. “But as of right now, nothing.”