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Planning Commission approves amendments to UDO solar rules, keeps 4,000-acre cap with new counting method
Summary
The Jefferson County Planning Commission voted to amend the Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) text for commercial solar projects to count fenced acreage and tillable acreage removed from production toward a 4,000-acre county cap, and forwarded a favorable recommendation on the revised UDO with the amendments.
The Jefferson County Planning Commission on July 1 amended its draft Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) for commercial solar and voted to forward a favorable recommendation to the County Commissioners on the revised UDO.
Commissioners amended the UDO’s land‑coverage cap language so the county’s 4,000‑acre maximum for commercial solar projects will count acreage within fenced areas and tillable acreage outside fences that is taken out of production. The change was framed as a means to limit the amount of productive land removed from agricultural use while clarifying whether agricultural setback areas that remain in production are counted toward the cap.
“We currently have a land cap set that we would have a maximum of 4,000 acres of solar,” a Planning Commission member said. The same member…
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