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Auburn planning panel approves text changes to add missing NC‑40 rules and regulate solar panels
Summary
The Planning Commission voted to add long-missing bulk regulations for the NC‑40 neighborhood and new zoning language to regulate residential and industrial solar panels, treating most systems as accessory uses while keeping large solar fields subject to conditional use review.
The Auburn Planning Commission on its October agenda approved a two-part zoning ordinance text amendment to fill a decades-old omission and add rules for solar panels.
Planning staff told commissioners that NC‑40 — a small neighborhood off Hamilton Hills Drive — was omitted from the ordinance in 1996 and lacks bulk regulations. Staff proposed adding NC‑40 by averaging the bulk standards of adjacent NC‑48 and NC‑39 districts so the district is brought into parity with neighboring…
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