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Speaker 1
Me personally, I’m tired of these solar companies coming here, doing their business behind everybody, then all of a sudden, after they get to the place where they want to do it, then they send out the letters and everything.

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Speaker 2
Delaware County Commissioner James King proposed the new solar project moratorium after hearing from Hamilton Township area residents. They'd been contacted by a renewable energy company ready to locate in the area. King said officials hadn't been notified and approval paperwork hadn't been filed yet, even though the company said it began getting lease agreements with local farmers in the year 2020.

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Speaker 1
The solar companies, they cannot get any permits to start construction on the plan.  No solar can.

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Speaker 2
The new moratorium is on any solar project anywhere in the county. It's not limited to agricultural land projects. It's those projects that many residents objected to. And those projects that were the subject of a zoning use variance ordinance that the county spent years crafting. Commissioner Shannon Henry says he wanted to put the question about allowing solar to the voters, but missed the deadline for November's ballot.

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Speaker 3
So then I asked if we could have a separate sheet of paper at all the polling locations to have people vote, And that’s illegal now.  Apparently some other county did that and it kind of messed the election up, so we can’t do that.

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Speaker 2
Commissioners suspended the rules at a Tuesday morning meeting to pass the moratorium in one day. It's in effect until March 1st, 2025. In Muncie. Stephanie Wiechmann, IPR news.