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Planning staff outlines zoning amendments including battery storage rules and bans on data centers, small modular nuclear reactors
Summary
Planning staff presented ordinance 20 26 dash 15, which would clarify setbacks and lot-line diagrams, add schools to industrial/mineral zones per state statute, define battery energy storage systems with BZA review conditions, and explicitly exclude data centers and small modular nuclear reactors from permitted uses and the major-utility definition; staff suggested scheduling a hearing on May 14.
Monroe County planning staff presented a summary of proposed amendments in ordinance 20 26 dash 15 that would update zoning definitions, permitted uses and review procedures.
Miss Bierman, assistant director and acting director of the Planning Department, told commissioners the packet contains a set of substantive text amendments and described the principal changes. Among them: clarifying how front setbacks and lot-line determinations are measured (including an illustrative diagram for staff use); adding schools to the use table in industrial and mineral-extraction zones…
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