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Huron County sets March public meetings to consider restricting large wind and solar projects
Summary
The Huron County Board of Commissioners scheduled two public meetings for March 19 to consider designating parts of unincorporated Huron County as restricted areas that could bar economically significant wind farms and large solar facilities under Ohio law; a proposed map will be posted at public libraries and citizens will have three minutes to speak.
The Huron County Board of Commissioners on Feb. 3 set two public meetings for Thursday, March 19, 2026, at 9:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. in Meeting Room A at the Huron County Administration Building to consider designating portions of unincorporated Huron County as restricted areas that would prohibit economically significant wind farms, large wind farms and large solar facilities under Ohio Revised Code sections 303.57–303.62.
The board’s resolution (26-043) directs that a proposed map be posted at all public libraries in Huron County and requires a public notice in a newspaper of general circulation and on the county website. Citizens wishing to speak will be allotted up to three minutes, the record states.
Commissioner Tom Dunlap said the sessions are a public meeting rather than a formal public hearing. Assistant Prosecutor Randal Strickler described the meetings as an opportunity to "give people the opportunity to speak their piece of what they do or don’t want," according to the meeting record.
The board voted to set the meetings by unanimous recorded vote of those present; Commissioners Tom Dunlap and James R. Morgan voted Aye and Commissioner Harry Brady was recorded as absent.
The meetings will be conducted pursuant to R.C. 303.58. The county notice on Feb. 5 will include the map and instructions for how members of the public may comment. The board’s action does not itself adopt any land-use restriction; it schedules the statutorily required meetings at which the commissioners will consider whether to designate restricted areas under state statute.
Next procedural steps recorded in the meeting minutes include publication of the public-meeting notice, posting of the map at county libraries, and the two hearings on March 19 where members of the public may present views before the board takes any formal designation action.
