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Committee Sends Solar Incentive Ordinances to Full Board After Industry and Housing Debate
Summary
Supervisors debated dividing a proposed $3 million City solar incentive between nonprofit affordable housing and owner-occupied/single-family projects. Solar installers and environmental advocates urged full funding and warned that narrowing eligibility would limit market uptake; the committee sent two solar items to the full Board for June 3 without recommendation and continued a third item.
The Budget & Finance Committee took up three ordinances to preserve and deploy $3 million in municipal MECA funds for a solar incentive program. The proposals included an ordinance to preserve the funding, an environmental code amendment to create the program, and a pilot-program ordinance spelling out allocation priorities.
Supervisor Mark McRaeamy proposed an amendment to split the pilot dollars between nonprofit-owned affordable…
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