Committee presses for clearer site-size, setback and stormwater rules for utility-scale projects
Members asked whether project site size calculations should include access roads, detention, utilities and landscaping; they flagged potential loopholes that could let developers understate true project footprints and asked staff to clarify MS4/stormwater jurisdiction.
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Committee members said the draft's site-size definition — which currently excludes access roads, detention/retention facilities, underground utilities and required landscaping — could allow projects to understate their true footprint. "If you don't include setbacks, you could have a 2,000-acre parcel that's only a thousand acres [counted]," one member warned, and asked that setbacks and associated infrastructure be clarified in the site area cap.
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