HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The main discussion on solar regulations in the zoned area of Reno County will happen on Monday, July 29.
“We’re talking about private solar and large scale solar,” said Reno County Public Works director Don Brittain. “Limited scale is already approved.”
The public hearing is to change the language for ground-mounted private solar and to discuss whether or not large scale solar will happen in the zoned areas of the county.
There is no current authority for the planning commission regarding solar or anything else other than wind in the unzoned area, which is one of the reasons the Board of County Commissioners wants to hear from the currently unzoned areas about whether or not they want zoning.
“We made that public hearing at 5:30 p.m., so that people wouldn’t have to take off work and stuff and we’ll get more of an audience, so that’s at 5:30 p.m. instead of 4:30 p.m.”
The other zoning related public meetings in the county are July 22 and 23, before the solar meeting on July 29.
