After a year and three months of periodic public hearings, two Muncy Creek Township supervisors Thursday granted conditional use approval for three chicken barns for egg production and a combined solar energy array on land owned by a Lancaster County-based business.

Supervisors Eric Newcomer, chair, and Harley Fry II, granted the applications of Bollinger Solar for the concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) of three, not five, barns and a solar array farm with solar panels not located in any part of the residential zone.

Each barn in the application has 70,000 chickens. Sunny Side Up Farms is to be operated by AgVentures Inc., also of Lancaster County.

There were 40 conditions supervisors imposed, and the conditions are in a process of becoming memorialized.

The township building was well attended, and the decision was absent of any commotion.

“We tried to be fair,” Newcomer said.

The property is owned by Sunny Side Up Farms and is zoned primarily as agriculture conservation, and a much smaller portion is zoned for residential use.

The two proposed barns closest to Fogelman Road are not approved.

Also, the solar portion must not be in any part of the residential zone.

The land is fronted by Clarkstown Road and bordered on either side by Fogelman and Muncy Exchange roads.

The host of conditions the board applied to the applications was read by J. Michael Wiley, township solicitor with McCormick Law Firm.

The applicant’s attorney Samuel E. Wiser Jr. of Salzmann Hughes was present and a representative for the applicant, as was Zachary DuGan, with Perciballi & Williams, counsel for Muncy Area Neighborhood Preservation Coalition, a citizens’ grassroots group opposed to the CAFO and solar project. The coalition has reserved comments for another time, according to a coalition spokesman.

Also in attendance was Victor Marquardt, township zoning officer with Code Inspections Inc.

The next phase will be the development plan proposal and review, the board said.