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Talks start on new solar regs
At issue is proposed solar farm near Cheyenne Bottoms
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Barton County Planning Commission member Mary Anne Stoskopf, center, addresses a commission meeting about possible solar farm regulations Thursday morning at the Barton County Courthouse. Also pictured are commission members Jim Welch, Toni Rice and Billie Jean Bonomo. - photo by DALE HOGG Great Bend Tribune
A day after the Barton County Commission returned proposed zoning changes regarding the prohibition of solar farms within six miles of Cheyenne Bottoms back to the Planning Commission for more study, planning commissioners met Thursday morning to begin what could be a tedious, months-long process to define solar energy installations and the regulations governing them.