The County Board may approve a siting permit application if it finds the evidence complies with state, federal, and local law and regulations, and with the standards of these regulations, and with the standards of this zoning code including the factors listed below. The factors below are applied as a balancing test, not individual requirements to be met.
(A) The establishment, maintenance or operation of the commercial solar energy facility will not be detrimental to or endanger the public health, safety, morals, comfort or general welfare.
(B) The commercial solar energy facility will not be injurious to the uses and enjoyment of other property in the immediate vicinity for the purposes already permitted, nor substantially diminish and impair property values of surrounding properties.
(C) The establishment of the commercial solar energy facility will not impede the normal and orderly development and improvement of the surrounding properties.
(D) Adequate public utilities, access roads, drainage and/or necessary facilities have been or will be provided.
(E) Adequate measures have been or will be taken to provide ingress and egress so designed as to minimize traffic congestion in the public streets.
(F) The proposed commercial solar energy facility is not contrary to the objectives of the current comprehensive plan of the county.
(G) The commercial solar energy facility shall, in all other respects, conform to the applicable regulations of this chapter and the zoning district in which it is located, except as such regulations may, in each instance, be modified pursuant to the recommendations of and approved by the County Board.
(Ord. passed 11-28-2023)