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Planning commission shortens public-comment rules, hears concerns about Xcel Energy Power Pathway
Summary
The Elbert County Planning Commission voted to allow the chair discretion to extend public-comment times from three to up to five minutes and heard a public comment from the Elbert County Environmental Alliance urging caution about Xcel Energy's Colorado Power Pathway and its potential to encourage wind and solar development.
The Elbert County Planning Commission on May 20 voted to amend its public-comment practice so the chair may extend an individual speaker’s time up to five minutes, citing an inadvertent change in the published time limit.
During the meeting’s public-comment period, Carrie Giblets of the Elbert County Environmental Alliance thanked county staff for information resources and called attention to Xcel Energy’s Colorado Power Pathway. She said the transmission project could increase interest in wind and solar development along routes and warned landowners to anticipate related land-use applications. “Colorado's power pathway will carry the…
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