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City council approves minor changes to residential solar rules, increasing allowed ground array size
Summary
The chair reported the city council approved an amendment to local solar rules that raises the allowable residential ground-mounted array from 100 to 200 square feet and reduces maximum height from 15 to 12 feet; the rest of the ordinance remains unchanged.
The chair reported that the city council approved an ordinance amendment for solar energy systems on final reading the previous night, noting two small changes to the residential ground-mounted standard.
"They amended that so you could go 200 square feet, and then lowered the height from 15 to 12," the chair said. The chair added that all other provisions in the ordinance remain unchanged and that the approved text will be the new local standard governing residential solar installations.
The change applies specifically to ground-mounted residential systems: staff had previously proposed a 100-square-foot limit with a 15-foot maximum height. The council's amendment doubles the permitted footprint and trims the maximum height by three feet; no effective date was specified in the discussion recorded in the provided transcript.
The commission's chair framed the report as an update from city council rather than a local action before the commission; no formal vote on the solar ordinance was recorded in the transcript segments supplied for this meeting.
