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Council reviews second readings of land‑use changes and reiterates six‑site cap on commercial solar farms
Summary
Staff told the council that land‑use ordinance amendments and moratoriums previously approved did not meet the five‑member threshold to waive second reading; staff also restated that commercial solar energy generating systems are capped at six sites until decommissioning reduces the count.
Staff told the council the amendments to land‑use ordinances and moratoriums were approved at the previous meeting but that the waiver of second reading did not receive the five votes required. "All of the amendments to the land use, policy of ordinances, the moratoriums were approved at the last meeting, but we only had 5 members here for that meeting. And and the waving of the 2nd reading did not garner 5 votes as required by the charge," the staff member said.
Staff also reminded the council of the existing cap on commercial solar farms: "the number of allowed commercial developed solar farms has been capped at 6. So we have more than that now, but once it gets down to 6, that's where it will stay until at least 1 of those 6 gets decommissioned," the staff member said. The transcript contains no final vote tally or recorded outcome for the second readings in this excerpt.
