We don't have sizes listed, just bulk storage. I would think this is bulk storage, so we would too require a C.U.P. Maybe we should start looking at the regs in more detail in regards to farming. I think most of our regs were written for farmers that farm 160 to 600 acres not guys who farm 1,000 or more and want to centralize storage. A lot of the big farmers I have here are actually decentralizing a lot of activities by putting machine sheds and/or grain bins on quarters they own/lease. But I can see bulk storage of propane and anhydrous since it could be cheaper in larger quantities.

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Check out the link above for a comparison of decibles that makes sense.  60dB is about as loud as a normal conversation.

I just had someone in my office that is developing facilities to hold 18000 lbs of anhydrous.  He is doing this for his own use on his own farms.  He will not be distributing to others.  At this point it looks like it is part of a farming operation and allowed as an accessory use.  He also talked about Iowa farmers that are putting in 30000 lb bulk propane tanks to power grain driers.   Again this is for on farm use, no distribution.  Is that too big to be considered a normal farming operation.  If you were putting in a 30000 lb tank for distribution we would require a conditional use permit.

What do you think?

Chad

The Norfolk Airport would like us to adopt Norfolk's airport overlay district, but I contend we should be different because we have different land uses in our part of the three-mile than the city does.

I have sent a suggestion to Larry Dix of NACO to get with the League and sponsoring senator to put together a model energy chapter for the Comp Plan. I have been researching nation-wide energy sections of comp plans and they vary from community energy use to green energy planning to developing green energy jobs to looking at local energy production. Nothing seems to be as comprehensive as the bill seems to want. I'll keep the forum posted on what is happening on this front.

Anybody got any ideas as to what the Unicamerial wants in the Energy Assessment addition to Comprehensive Plans?

There will be a Northeast District Workshop on the "Open Meetings Act" on Tuesday, April 27 at 7 pm at the Bloomfield Community Center in Bloomfield. The admission price is zero, zip, none, notta, free. The speaker is our own Charles Hamilton (Felix). Come join the party.

Try 608-1-0101 for county.

This year I'd like to try to get budget approval for the $15/meeting stipend for my zoning commissioners. What expenditure code/classification do you folks use when budgeting and submitting claims? I don't see anything appropriate on the official list of exp. codes.

Going to treat as a separate district overlaying anywhere the hazard zone lies.