The Reno County Commission has tentatively set a special meeting for May 21 to take up the NextEra Energy application for a conditional use permit for its proposed wind farm in southeastern Reno County.
The meeting will start at 6:30 p.m. at the Atrium Hotel and Conference Center, 1400 N. Lorraine.
No public comment is expected to be taken during the meeting, though county staff will present a report to the commission on whether any new information “that could not have been known” at the time of earlier Reno County Planning Commission public hearings has been presented for consideration.
The County Commission, meanwhile, continues to be flooded with emails and phone calls that, under the commission’s own rules set up earlier this year, the commissioner’s cannot consider when making their decision on the permit.
Development opponent Amy Brown asked the commission about the issue after reading in The News Tuesday morning about the commissioners receiving emails and phone calls in favor of the project after the Planning Commission had voted to recommend denying the permit.
“We need a point of clarification on how we should or should not proceed moving forward,” Brown said. “We’re asking whether the commission is accepting emails and phone calls at this point.”
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