Commissioners send BESS ordinance back to planning commission, recommend larger setbacks
After a public hearing on Ordinance 2026-7 regulating battery energy storage systems, commissioners voted to return the draft to the planning commission with a recommendation to increase setbacks to 1,320 feet (property-line to property-line) and to require escrow and technical review.
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Marshall County Commissioners opened a public hearing on Ordinance 2026-7, a draft ordinance to regulate the siting and operation of battery energy storage systems (BESS), then voted to send the draft back to the planning commission with a recommendation to increase residential setbacks to 1,320 feet from property line to property line.
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