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Roosevelt County planning board to update growth policy to address wind and solar, explores zoning path
Summary
Roosevelt County officials agreed to prepare a task order this fall to update the county growth policy with an eye to regulating large-scale energy developments; consultants recommended a broader approach that pairs an updated policy with zoning, and officials discussed funding through CDBG planning grants in May 2027.
Roosevelt County planning officials voted to prepare a task order to update the county's growth policy to address large-scale energy uses such as wind and solar farms and to explore next steps toward a zoning code that could regulate those projects.
Rachel Walkway, the lead planner based in Williston and the contract planner for Richland County, told commissioners that "your growth policy is not gonna be regulatory. What it does is it gives you the backup and the reasoning for doing your zoning regulations." She urged the county to consider a broader, industrial-scale approach to energy uses that would cover batteries, data centers and other high-demand users as well as renewables.
Casey Burke, introduced in the meeting as "the planner," said he would prepare a task order to scope the update and present it at the next meeting. Commissioners discussed budgeting…
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