The Gloucester County Planning Commission held two public hearings last Thursday in the T.C. Walker Education Center Auditorium. Planners unanimously voted to recommend approval of an ordinance to permit permanent food trucks and food truck courts, while recommending denial of a conditional use proposal to establish a battery storage facility in the northern part of the county, also unanimously, save for commissioner James R. Gray Jr., who recused himself from the discussion and vote as he was formerly employed as a consultant for Purple Martin Energy Center LLC, the firm seeking the conditional use permit. Purple Martin Energy Center Planners voted to send the battery storage CUP request to county supervisors with the recommendation of denial, due to both inconsistency with the current comprehensive plan and staff recommendations. The proposed project would establish a battery energy storage facility on 15 acres of land on a vacant lot in the Rural Countryside Zone (RC-1) near Glenns....