County commissioners to host special meeting on solar fields on May 21 at Liberty Center

LANCASTER − The possibility of companies building solar farms in Fairfield County has been discussed at recent Fairfield County Board of Commission meetings. The commissioners have heard from those who oppose solar farms and from those who approve of them.

This week the commissioners voted to hold a public hearing at 10:30 a.m. on May 21 the the Liberty Center at 951 Liberty Drive to exclude some townships from any solar farm construction.

Walnut, Greenfield, Richland, Amanda and Pleasant townships have requested the commissioners deem those townships as exclusionary zones exempt from solar farm construction.

Commissioners Jeff Fix and Dave Levacy voted for the public meeting and Steve Davis abstained. The vote was only to hold a meeting and not to determine the fate of any proposed solar field.

On an unrelated note, the commissioners also heard a presentation the Nick Gill of the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission. He touched on a number of central Ohio issues, including the idea of building a connector road from U.S. 33 to Interstate 70.

Gill said the idea is still a concept that there have been some studies of the idea over the last 10 years.

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