(Council Bluffs, Iowa [KETV]) – The Pottawattamie County Board of Supervisors, Tuesday, approved an updated set of regulations for wind and solar energy projects in the county. Their action came during the Board’s regular meeting. The guidelines are an update to the previous guideline that have been in place since 2007 on the wind side. They create a set of regulations on the solar side,
The new guidelines will be published next Thursday and updated on the county’s website on Friday. The board also plans to remove a moratorium it had in place on new solar and wind projects..
Among the regulations: projects must be set back three miles from communities, three miles from parks & recreation areas, three miles from the Council Bluffs airport and at least 2,400 feet away from dwellings on landowners’ properties.