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Committee recommends county board consider solar, wind and battery-storage ordinances
Summary
The Iroquois County Tax Planning and Zoning Committee voted to forward draft ordinances governing solar, wind and commercial battery storage to the County Board after the Zoning Board of Appeals recommended approval without changes. Committee members discussed timing, building-permit questions and site-specific safety conditions for batteries.
The Iroquois County Tax Planning and Zoning Committee voted May 6 to recommend that the County Board consider draft ordinances governing commercial solar, wind and battery storage projects after the Zoning Board of Appeals recommended the drafts without changes.
The recommendation follows a ZBA public hearing in which most testimony, the committee heard, focused on building-permit details such as vegetation screening and permit fees rather than the zoning provisions that control conditional-use approvals. Andrew Knight, the committee’s attorney, told members that the ordinance provisions in place when an application is deemed complete are those that apply to that application.
The ordinance package covers three separate but related items: a solar…
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