Questions about handing the former Haley Pike Landfill to a private solar developer have been simmering for months.
“This came up back in the fall, and in November council members expressed some concerns around transparency as this was the sole respondent to a city RFP (request for proposal) for the Haley Pike Landfill,” CivicLex’s Richard Young explained Monday.
That sole respondent was Edelen Renewables, which would be charged $85 per acre under the proposed deal — substantially less than the $550 to $850 estimate first floated in a 2024 study, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader…