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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPublic Hearing - BOCC (002)NAME Grant County Board Of County Commissioners Please Sign In For The Record Extension of Moratorium on New Commercial and Industrial PUBLIC HEARING Wind Projects, Ordinance No. 26-020-CC DATE April 7, 2026 TIME 11:30 AM Please Your Name ClearlNw REPRESENTING I CONTACT INFO: PHONE/E-MAIL .�.li r✓t �O�al - %ici�. I Gc l� 5 �-r 2s2Z . https://grantcountywa.sharepoint.com/teams/BOCC/Shared Documents/General/Templates/Public Hearings/0 Sign In Sheet, Open Record.docx Py BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS Grant County, Washington AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING AN ORDINANCE No. 26- 040 -CC EXTENSION TO ORDINANCE 25-083-CC RELATING TO A MORATORIUM ON NEW COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL WIND PROJECTS REGARDLESS OF PERMIT TYPE FOR A PERIOD OF 6 ADDITIONAL MONTHS, AND PROVIDING THAT THE MORATORIM, UNLESS EXTENDED, SHALL SUNSET WITHIN 6 MONTHS OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF ADOPTION. RECITALS: WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioner for Grant County enacted Ordinance No. 25-083-CC on September 23, 2025 placing a moratorium barring the acceptance of any wind development land use permit applications pursuant to RCW 36. 70A. 3 90; and, WHEREAS, the Development Services Department continues to prepare draft regulations and anticipates holding workshops with the Planning Commission to review those draft regulations; and, WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners believes that unless this land use issue is addressed immediately with reviewed or new zoning controls, wind developments may proliferate through the County without adequate mitigation and/ or zoning controls to ensure the facilities are consistent with the adopted goals and policies in the Comprehensive Plan; and, WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners finds that this issue presents an emergency condition within the County and that imposing a moratorium on any new applications for wind developments is necessary to preserve the public health, safety, and welfare of the community; and, WHEREAS, RCW 36. 70A. 390 authorizes the Board of County Commissioners to enact a moratorium for a period of six (6) months subject to conducting a public hearing on the moratorium within sixty (60) days of its enactment; and, WHEREAS, RCW 36. 70A. 390 also authorizes the extension of the moratorium by one or more six (6) month periods as necessary; and, WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners for Grant County shall duly advertise and conduct an open record public hearing in regard to this moratorium extension on April 7, 2026 at 11:30 a.m. Page 1 of 2 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT HEREBY ORDAINED THAT the Grant County Board of Commissioners extends the moratorium enacted by Ordinance No. 25-083-CC for a period of six (6) additional months from the original expiration date of March 23, 2026. The new expiration date shall be September 23, 2026. The moratorium shall continue to have the following effect: A. This moratorium shall not apply to the acceptance, processing, and issuance of any building permit applications for wind generation sites that had an issued and valid land use permit in place prior to the effective date of this moratorium. B. This moratorium does not apply to residential accessory wind generation uses constructed on or adjacent to an existing private single-family residence for purposes of augmenting that specific single- family residence's energy resources. C. A public hearing will be conducted within sixty (60) days of the effective date of this ordinance. D. Should any part of this moratorium be found to be unlawful or unconstitutional and set aside, the remaining portions of the moratorium will remain in full effect. E. This moratorium is necessary to protect the public health, safety and general welfare. DATED this 16th day of March, 2026. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS Yea Nay Abstain Grant County, Washington 1�r o 0 N T y� Nz r Kevin Bur es hair :cnSE A L �YVY� '',, ' • ° NG �`�®®`® Cindy Ca er, Vice- air �'' 1 �►s a 7 es,-Member ATTEST: h Z- Caitlin E. Manell, Clerk of the Board Page 2 of 2 GRANT COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS EMAIL To: Legals Columbia Basin Herald From: I Caitlin E. Manell Clerk of the Board Fax: (509) 765-8659 Pages: 1 (including coversheet) Phone: (509) 765-4561 Phone: (509) 754-2011, ext. 2931 Re: Public Hearing Notice Date: March 13, 2026 ❑ Urgent ❑ For Review El Please Comment 0 Please Reply ❑ Confidential Please publish the following on March 24, 2026, and bill the Grant County Commissioners: We also require an Affidavit of Publication. Please place the ad in 9 pt font and your normal six - column format, columnar, as shown. Feel free to contact me at the number listed above. vOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN CHAT" AN OPEN RECORD PUBLIC HEARING WILL BE HELD April 7, 2026, at L 1:30 a.m. in the Grant County commissioners Hearing Room, courthouse, Ephrata, WA to take 'ublic Comment regarding an extension to Ordinance No. 25-083-CC -elating to a moratorium on any and all Zew commercial and industrial wind .)rojects regardless of permit type for a )eriod of 6 additional months, and iroviding that the moratorium, unless extended, shall sunset within 6 months )f the effective date of adoption. Any Interested persons may appear regarding these matters. A copy of the adopted Ordinance can be found on the Commissioners' webpage: https://www.grantcounIMa.f4ov/74 I /U pcoming-Public-Hearings or may be requested by emailing the Commissioners' Office at commissionersggrantcountywa. gov. Grant County is also providing access to this scheduled hearing via Zoom audio. To participate in the Bearing please call it, to the hearing at 1 (253) 205-0468, enter the access code (940 4827 7440) and password (26229323) and you will be joined to the meeting in a `muted ' status until such time as the hearing allows for public testimony. If you have any questions about this procedure, please call the Commissioner's Office in advanc( of the hearing. Caitlin E. Manell, Clerk of the Board, Grant County Commissioner's Office. all new commercial and webpage: https://www. cess code (940 4827 7440) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIV- industrial wind projects grantcountywa.gov/741/ and password (26229323) EN THAT AN OPEN RE- regardless of permit type Upcoming -Public -Hear- and you will be joined to CORD PUBLIC HEAR- for a period of 6 additional ings or may be requested the meeting in a `muted' ING WILL BE HELD months, and providing that by emailing the Commis- status until such time as April 7, 2026, at 11:30 the moratorium, unless ex- sioners' Office at commis- the hearing allows for pub- a.m. in the Grant Coun- tended, shall sunset within sioners@grantcountywa. lic testimony. If you have ty Commissioners Hear- 6 months of the effective gov. Grant County is also any questions about this ing Room, Courthouse, date of adoption. Any in- providing access to this procedure, please call the Ephrata, WA to take Pub- terested persons may ap- scheduled hearing via Commissioners Office in lic Comment regarding pear regarding these mat- Zoom audio. To participate advance of the hearing. an extension to Ordinance ters. A copy of the adopted in the hearing please call Caitlin E. Manell, Clerk of No. 25-083-CC relating to Ordinance can be found in to the hearing at 1 (253) the Board, Grant County a moratorium on any and on the Commissioners' 205-0468, enter the ac- Commissioner's Office. STATE OF WASHINGTON COUNTY OF GRANT 1, Blaze Griffith -Steele, do solemnly swear that I am the Principle Agent of the Columbia Basin Herald, a newspaper established and regularly published five days a week in the English language, in and of general circulation continuously for more than six (6) months prior the 31 st day of March, 1944; that said newspaper is printed in an office maintained at its place of publication in the City of Moses Lake, Washington; that said newspaper was approved and designated as a legal newspaper by the order of the Superior Court of the State of Washington for Grant County on the 31 st day of March, 1944; and that said order has not been revoked and is in full force and effect. That the annexed is a true copy of Legal Notice # 03066/47223 GRANT COUNTY EXTENSION TO ORDINANCE NO. 25-083-CC as it was published in regular issues (and not in supplement form) of said newspaper once each DAY for a period of I consecutive DAY commencing on the 24TH of MARCH 2026 and ending on the 24TH of MARCH 2026 both dates inclusive and that such newspaper was regularly distributed to its subscribers during all of said period, that the full amount of fee charged for the forecroing publication is the sum of $41.78 $laze Griff�th�'teele Subscribed and sworn to before me this 24TH DAY OF MARCH2026, Bift '06 06 - ob R-a-Y"R1Ch0r­d$­-- on Notary Public State of Washington �`�� My Appointment Expires 11 /4/2029 MY Commission Number 21034179 B ay Richardson Notary Public in and for the State of Washington Residing in Moses Lake, Washington