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Champaign County Environment and Land Use Committee approves circus license, extends carbon-sequestration moratorium, forwards battery-storage ordinance and MS4
Summary
At its meeting the committee approved a recreation license for the Great Benjamin Circus, extended a temporary safety moratorium on carbon sequestration for six months, recommended a text amendment to add battery energy storage systems (BESS) in several zoning districts subject to a county-board special-use permit, and filed a notice of intent for
The Champaign County Environment and Land Use Committee approved four items and forwarded two zoning-related measures to the full county board on routine voice votes.
The committee unanimously approved a recreation and entertainment license for All American Entertainment doing business as the Great Benjamin Circus to perform at the Champaign County Fairgrounds, 1302 North Kohler Avenue in Urbana, from Oct. 16 through Oct. 19, 2025. The motion to approve was moved by John and seconded by Jennifer; the chair called the voice vote in favor.
The committee voted to extend by six months a temporary safety moratorium on carbon-sequestration activity (zoning case 178-AT-25) as described in the legal…
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