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Auburn planning board forwards Chapter 60 zoning amendments, asks council to add PFAS handling language
Summary
The Auburn Planning Board reviewed council-initiated Chapter 60 amendments to bar new single-family homes from prime farmland and require licensed soil evaluators for solar siting; after public comment, the board voted to forward the draft to city council with a request to add language addressing PFAS-contaminated soils.
The Auburn Planning Board reviewed city-council-initiated changes to Chapter 60 zoning that would tighten protections for farmland and change how large solar projects are evaluated, and it voted to forward the draft to city council with a request to add provisions for handling PFAS-contaminated soils.
Planning staff member Sam told the board the proposal would prohibit new single-family homes from being sited on prime farmland or farmland of statewide importance as defined by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, bar siting on essential habitat, wetlands and slopes over 25 percent, and require a licensed soil evaluator to determine prime farmland for solar projects rather than relying solely on NRCS maps. "We're proposing that they cannot be sited on farmland of statewide importance or prime farmland soils," Sam said, describing a shift to…
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