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Local installer urges council to lift ground-mounted solar moratorium, suggests community-solar sites
Summary
A local solar installer urged the council to allow the moratorium on ground-mounted solar to expire, proposed community-solar on city-owned parcels near floodplain, and warned that federal tax credits expire at year-end.
Ryan Cough, founder of Iowa Solar and a Davenport resident, urged the council during public comment on Sept. 24 to allow the city’s moratorium on ground-mounted solar installations to expire even if zoning language is not yet finalized.
Cough said the moratorium had followed a locally noncompliant installation that violated setback and view-triangle rules and stressed that…
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