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File #: 60662    Version: 1 Name: Allow Electric Power Production and/or heating and cooling plants
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 5/26/2020 In control: PLAN COMMISSION
On agenda: 6/16/2020 Final action: 6/16/2020
Enactment date: 6/30/2020 Enactment #: ORD-20-00059
Title: Amending portions of Madison General Ordinances 28.061, 28.082, and 28.091 to allow Electric Power Production and/or heating and cooling plants as a Permitted/Conditional use in all Mixed-Use and Commercial Districts and the Suburban Employment (SE) District, Suburban Employment Center (SEC) District, Employment Campus (EC), and Agricultural District; amending Madison General Ordinance 28.151 to allow Electric Power Production and/or heating and cooling plants using solar as an energy source as a permitted use in the districts listed above; and amending Madison General Ordinance 28.211 to eliminate the superfluous definition of Electric Power Production from the Zoning Code.
Sponsors: Satya V. Rhodes-Conway, Michael J. Tierney, Patrick W. Heck, Syed Abbas
Attachments: 1. Body 60662.pdf, 2. Zoning Text Memo 6-8-20.pdf

Fiscal Note

No City appropriation required.

Title

Amending portions of Madison General Ordinances 28.061, 28.082, and 28.091 to allow Electric Power Production and/or heating and cooling plants as a Permitted/Conditional use in all Mixed-Use and Commercial Districts and the Suburban Employment (SE) District, Suburban Employment Center (SEC) District, Employment Campus (EC), and Agricultural District; amending Madison General Ordinance 28.151 to allow Electric Power Production and/or heating and cooling plants using solar as an energy source as a permitted use in the districts listed above; and amending Madison General Ordinance 28.211 to eliminate the superfluous definition of Electric Power Production from the Zoning Code.

Body

DRAFTER'S ANALYSIS:  This amendment will allow Electric Power Production and/or heating and cooling plants as a permitted/conditional use in all mixed-use and commercial districts and the Suburban Employment (SE), Suburban Employment Center (SEC), Employment Campus (EC), and Agricultural District (A).  Under this ordinance, in the Agricultural District any Electric Power Production and/or heating and cooling plant using solar as an energy source will be a permitted use.  As such, this will expand the areas in the City were such a use is allowed and, in at least one district, make solar energy plants a permitted use.

 

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The Common Council of the City of Madison do hereby ordain as follows:

 

                     Please see "Body 60662" in Attachments.