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Advisory group debates definitions, local agriculture, microgrids and county renewable goals
Summary
Advisory members reviewed revisions to the sustainability, resilience, energy and climate chapter, asking for clearer definitions (for example, what 'conservation' means), discussing local food-processing and USDA inspection limits, and raising legal and technical constraints for local energy solutions such as community-scale microgrids.
Members of the Coconino County advisory group reviewed the sustainability, resilience, energy and climate draft and pressed staff for clearer definitions, more concrete implementation strategies, and corrected terminology before broader public review.
Advisory members asked for an explicit definition of “conservation” in the chapter and requested that definitions and glossary terms be consistent across all plan chapters. Staff said a glossary is being developed and that definitions will be hyperlinked into the draft.
Food and agricultural resilience drew sustained comment. One participant urged removal of the phrase “small-scale” from a policy supporting agriculture and ranching, arguing the county should support farming and…
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