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Zoning committee advances several solar projects, recommends battery ordinance rewrite after state changes

Iroquois County Board · April 9, 2026
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Summary

The zoning committee deemed multiple solar conditional-use applications complete and forwarded them toward public hearings, approved decommissioning and screening plans for other projects, and instructed staff to rewrite the county's battery ordinance after recent state changes.

Scott (speaker 4) briefed the board on zoning committee action on solar and related land-use matters. He said a 4.32-megawatt solar facility on 47 acres near Clifton and a 1.3-megawatt facility on 10 acres were deemed complete and will be forwarded to the county zoning board of appeals (CBA) for public hearings. A separate 2.85-megawatt application north of Watsika was judged incomplete and deferred.

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