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Board moves to advertise broad spring code updates including manufactured-housing and solar changes
Summary
County staff presented state-required and discretionary updates to the zoning and code book, including a state mandate to allow manufactured housing where single-family housing is allowed, new 3,000-square-foot small-lot requirements, and expanded allowances for solar and battery storage; the board authorized advertising the ordinance for public hearing.
Campbell County staff presented a package of spring code updates that include both mandatory changes from the General Assembly and locally proposed, discretionary revisions.
The county attorney summarized the most substantive items: adjusted civil-penalty and application-fee language, new provisions for door-to-door vendor credentials and a county-issued badge, expanded allowances for solar installations including agrivoltaics and co-located battery storage, and a state mandate requiring the county to provide at least one zoning district with minimum lots of 3,000 square feet and 30-foot widths (house bill cited in the presentation was referenced as HB 1212). The attorney said the manufactured-housing change means “if you allow single-family residential anywhere, manufactured housing is an acceptable use in that area,” and staff recommended placing the new small-lot district in an existing residential-manufactured housing district to limit countywide impacts.
Supervisors pressed staff on details including whether solar could be used as a sole power source (staff: technically allowed but “more engineering than legal”), whether public utilities must be available to small lots (staff: yes), and how buffering, screening and setback language would be enforced. The attorney told the board these items will be included in the public packet so affected property owners can see the exact code language.
After questions, a supervisor moved to advertise the proposed code amendments for the July public hearing; the motion passed on a voice vote. Staff said the advertised documents and the full draft code language will be posted with the agenda packet before the hearing.
