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Commissioners debate wording on commercial solar, favor steering development toward brownfields and landfills
Summary
Planning commissioners reviewed language on commercial solar facilities and largely supported keeping a provision that suggests steering large solar projects to brownfields and landfills rather than productive farmland, while noting state-level pressure to limit local control over siting.
Madison County Planning Commission members reviewed and debated a draft paragraph that references commercial solar facilities and whether the plan should steer those facilities to previously developed sites such as brownfields and landfills.
Some commissioners argued that the comprehensive plan should discourage conversion of productive farmland and greenfields to large commercial solar plants and…
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