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Planning commission advances revised solar ordinance to public hearing after 5-4 vote
Summary
After extended debate over buffers, setbacks and legal risk, the LaPorte County Planning Commission voted 5-4 to accept changes to a proposed solar ordinance and schedule a public hearing limited to the revisions for Sept. 23.
The LaPorte County Planning Commission voted 5-4 on Aug. 26 to accept revisions to a proposed county solar ordinance and send the changes to a public hearing at the commission's next meeting on Sept. 23. The hearing will be limited to the proposed changes, commissioners said.
Commissioners and staff discussed multiple substantive edits to the draft ordinance. Committee-level work had added industrial zoning as an allowed location for some solar developments and inserted buffer and screening standards. One commissioner cautioned that the draft's new setback language could amount to a de facto ban in…
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