Planning Commission tables code update

DAVENPORT - The Lincoln County Planning Commission placed a 3-month moratorium on updating the county zoning code to include provisions for wind and solar development at the Commission's regular meeting Monday, April 8.

Commission members expressed a desire to further study health-related concerns and reasonable turbine setbacks from residences before recommending code updates to the Lincoln County Commissioners for approval.

A draft code update has been written, based largely on language in Whitman County's current code. That draft was covered extensively in the March 21 issue of The Record-T...