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Stephanie Wiechmann
Before this week's meeting. A moratorium from last September extended through March 1st. Now, with a unanimous vote, a new moratorium will go out farther. Instead of an end date, the action will stay in place until the county's zoning ordinance governing solar projects can be amended again. Commissioner Stephen Brann says he's met with many people and done lots of research to help write amendments to that ordinance.

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Stephen Brand
To give a date today on when this is going to be completed. I can't do that. Depending on the actions of the Planning Commission and depending on the reaction of the commissioners. But the plan is to get this ordinance completed and sunset moratorium.

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Stephanie Wiechmann
This is by far the first moratorium on solar projects in Delaware County, and not the first amendments to the solar zoning ordinance, either. The county has spent years deciding how to put solar panels to create energy on rural farm ground, or even if it should be allowed at all. Speaking to the audience at the meeting, Commissioner Shannon Henry said the Delaware Monthly Metropolitan Plan Commission can't consider amendments to the zoning ordinance at its March meeting because of state mandated notice requirements.

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Shannon Henry
Think for it. I'm not saying it won't be. I'm saying look for it on and concern me and everybody clear on that.

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Stephanie Wiechmann
There's both coordinated support and opposition among Delaware County residents for the idea of solar energy in Muncie. Stephanie Wiechmann, IPR news.