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Committee presses for stronger review of building permits, flags battery storage deadline and debate over data‑center rules
Summary
Planning staff urged careful review of building-permit materials and proposed conditioning a Commerce Street Solar building permit on county-board approval of decommissioning and landscape plans by May 31. Members also discussed statutory deadlines for battery-storage ordinances and whether to place data centers under conditional-use rules or a time-limited moratorium.
The Iroquois County Planning and Zoning Committee spent substantial time discussing procedural safeguards for technical documents tied to renewable-energy projects and upcoming statutory deadlines for energy-related ordinance updates.
Andy, the committee presenter, told members that developers for Commerce Street Solar have submitted the documents needed to request a building permit but that two items remain: a decommissioning agreement and a landscape/vegetation-management plan. He proposed a resolution that would make a building permit conditional on the county board…
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