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Council adopts zoning text amendment permitting battery energy storage with safety conditions
Summary
Council approved a text amendment to add battery energy storage systems to several zoning categories, with council debate focusing on fire and environmental safety; amendment passed 6‑1.
The Lincoln City Council voted July 14 to amend municipal zoning code to add battery energy storage systems (BESS) to the utilities use group and to create a special‑permit regime and conditional uses for BESS in specified districts.
The proposed text amendment added a definition for “battery energy storage system” and allowed BESS as a permanent special use in the agricultural (AG) district and as a conditional/permitted use in several commercial and industrial…
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