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Commission endorses adding solar actions to implementation plan; narrows solar‑ready mandate with carve‑outs
Summary
The commission agreed May 21 to add Thurston Climate Mitigation Plan solar actions into the comprehensive plan implementation chapter, pursue higher SolSmart designation, and to require solar‑ready construction only 'as appropriate' with explicit examples of exceptions such as ADUs and small non‑electrified agricultural structures.
Thurston County planning commissioners on May 21 agreed to add several Thurston Climate Mitigation Plan (TCMP) solar actions into the county’s comprehensive plan implementation chapter and to pursue more aggressive county steps to encourage solar deployment.
Staff recommended replicating existing comprehensive plan policies into implementation actions so the county’s climate and land‑use documents would align. Commissioners supported copying policy CL1.D.2 (install solar photovoltaics on available and feasible county properties) into the implementation plan and conducting a targeted integration of TCMP actions rather than wholesale appendices.
On SolSmart, staff and Rebecca Harvey proposed an implementation action to pursue a higher SolSmart designation beyond the county’s current standing.…
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