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Elbert County votes to seek removal of PUC appeal expansion in PUC sunset bill

Elbert County Board of County Commissioners · March 18, 2026
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Summary

After a briefing, the county moved to amend its position on HB1326 to ask that sections expanding PUC appeal authority over local land-use denials (sections 10–13) be removed; the motion passed unanimously.

Elbert County commissioners voted March 18 to amend the county’s position on a Public Utilities Commission sunset bill to seek removal of language that would allow certain utilities and developers to appeal local land-use denials to the PUC.

During a legislative briefing, county lobbyists told commissioners that a provision in HB1326 would let cooperative utilities, municipal utilities, independent transmission…

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