Commission reviews Priority Preservation Area draft, flags mapping errors and funding pressure from solar projects
Staff presented a draft Priority Preservation Area chapter and maps; commissioners asked staff to correct map numbering and proposed tying periodic acreage updates to MALPF recertification cycles. The draft adds county compensation options and flags reduced funding for permanence programs that make easements less competitive versus solar offers.
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Leslie Grundon presented a draft of the Priority Preservation Area (PPA) chapter for the county’s comprehensive plan and walked the commission through a clean copy, a redline against the 2010 chapter and three maps showing the PPA, solar project locations and lands already in permanent easement.
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