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Mayor pitches ordinance to ban gas-fired turbine power plants in Commercial Point Village
Summary
Commercial Point Village’s mayor introduced Ordinance 20-26-03 in a first reading to prohibit gas-fired electric generation facilities using turbines after a developer inquiry to site capacity for a nearby data center; council debated whether to extend restrictions to ground-mounted solar and whether to add emergency language to make the ban effective immediately.
The mayor introduced Ordinance 20-26-03 for a first reading, proposing a ban on gas-fired electric generation facilities that use turbine engines within Commercial Point Village. The mayor said the ordinance was drafted after “a phone call we received from [a party] looking for property down by us to put in one of these … to serve a data center near Westfall,” and urged the council to refine the language as needed.
Council members used the discussion to press on related energy-generation policies. One member called out wind-energy…
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