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Commission recommends conditional‑use review for high‑voltage substations, tightens screening and setbacks
Summary
Planning staff proposed zoning performance standards to define transmission (≥138 kV) and distribution substations and add buffers, fencing and enhanced landscaping. The commission voted to forward the ordinance to the Board of Supervisors with an added recommendation that transmission‑voltage substations require a conditional use permit.
At a public hearing Jan. 7, staff presented a zoning text amendment to add performance standards for public utilities, distinguishing transmission‑voltage electrical substations (138 kV and higher) from distribution substations and proposing new buffers, fencing, and planting standards.
Planner Eric Klein told the commission that peer localities typically require special exceptions or conditional use permits for substations in agricultural and…
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