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Auburn planning commission adds missing NC‑40 rules and new solar regulations
Summary
The commission approved text amendments adding long-missing bulk regulations for NC 40 and new rules for residential and industrial solar panels, treating most panels as accessory uses while keeping large solar fields as conditional uses and allowing some panels to exceed primary-structure height to capture sunlight.
The Auburn Planning Commission on Wednesday approved a zoning text amendment to add missing bulk regulations for the NC 40 district and to create rules for solar panels in residential and industrial zones.
Planning staff told commissioners the bulk rules were an omission dating to a 1996 ordinance and that the amendment simply aligns NC 40’s standards with adjacent neighborhood…
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