SOUTH HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The Reno County Planning Commission read through potential text amendments to the county's Zoning Regulations regarding commercial solar development at its meeting April 20.

<a href="https://hutchpost.com/posts/f640402b-da32-48a0-8f5f-424bbb343846">The planning commission was given time to work by Reno County Commissioners, as they put a moratorium on such development in place for the rest of 2023 at their meeting on April 11.</a>

No public comment on the regulations was taken at the April 20 meeting, as it took them more than two hours just to read through and discuss the first draft provided by staff and make some initial edits. &nbsp;

County planner Mark Vonachen told the board that the decisions they need to make before further editing of the document are on what they choose to regulate and what they choose not to regulate. The goal is to make regulations that are able to be applied whether the proposed project is seven acres or 7000 acres.

The commission will work on other planning cases in May to give staff time to deal with the changes they were able to make on Thursday, so it will be at least June before the commission revisits the topic.

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 </figure>SOUTH HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The Reno County Planning Commission read through potential text amendments to the county's Zoning Regulations regarding commercial solar development at its meeting April 20.<a href="https://hutchpost.com/posts/f640402b-da32-48a0-8f5f-424bbb343846">The planning commission was given time to work by Reno County Commissioners, as they put a moratorium on such development in place for the rest of 2023 at their meeting on April 11.</a>No public comment on the regulations was taken at the April 20 meeting, as it took them more than two hours just to read through and discuss the first draft provided by staff and make some initial edits. &nbsp;County planner Mark Vonachen told the board that the decisions they need to make before further editing of the document are on what they choose to regulate and what they choose not to regulate. The goal is to make regulations that are able to be applied whether the proposed project is seven acres or 7000 acres.The commission will work on other planning cases in May to give staff time to deal with the changes they were able to make on Thursday, so it will be at least June before the commission revisits the topic.<a href="https://hutchpost.com/download" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a>&nbsp;to download the Hutch Post mobile app. <a href="https://hutchpost.com/posts/5e73b532afae0f4d5f5d90ea" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a>&nbsp;to sign up for the daily Hutch Post email news update.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;

Reno County Planning Commission does initial work on solar regs