Wind Turbine Ordinance
Summary
SCH Number
2010102051
Lead Agency
Butte County
Document Title
Wind Turbine Ordinance
Document Type
NEG - Negative Declaration
Received
Present Land Use
County-wide: residential, commercial, industrial, Agricultural, foothill, timber mountain, scenic highway and vacant parcels- GP:T
Document Description
Butte County proposes to adopt a wind turbine ordinance (See Appendix A) which would allow small wind turbines in agricultural, timber production, industrial, commercial, unclassified, foothill recreational, mountain recreation, and public/quasi-public zones with minor use permits (A, TPZ, M-1, M-2, L-I, C-1, C-2, C-C, P-Q, R-P, AR, FR, TM, MR, U, N-C, H-C, and PQ). It would allow large turbines in these same mostly non-residential zones with the issuance of a use permit. It would prohibit the placement of wind turbines in the County's more dense residential zones (SR, MHP, R-1, R-2, R-3, and R-4, SH, PUD, RN, and RT), as summarized in Table A below.
Contact Information
Name
Stacey Jolliffe
Agency Name
Butte County
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Location
Counties
Butte
Regions
Countywide
Parcel #
Various
State Highways
SR32, 99, 149, 70, 162, etc.
Railways
County-wide
Airports
Chico, Paradise, Oroville
Schools
County-wide
Waterways
County-wide
Notice of Completion
State Review Period Start
State Review Period End
State Reviewing Agencies
California Department of Conservation (DOC), California Department of Fish and Wildlife, North Central Region 2 (CDFW), California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of Transportation, District 3 (DOT), California Energy Commission, California Highway Patrol, California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley Redding Region 5 (RWQCB), Department of Water Resources, Resources Agency, Caltrans, Division of Aeronautics
State Reviewing Agency Comments
Caltrans, Division of Aeronautics
Development Types
Power:Wind (Wind Turbine)(Megawatts various)
Local Actions
Zoning Amendment
Project Issues
Aesthetics, Agriculture and Forestry Resources, Air Quality, Biological Resources, Cultural Resources, Drainage/Absorption, Flood Plain/Flooding, Geology/Soils, Growth Inducement, Hazards & Hazardous Materials, Hydrology/Water Quality, Land Use/Planning, Mineral Resources, Noise, Population/Housing, Public Services, Recreation, Schools/Universities, Septic System, Sewer Capacity, Solid Waste, Transportation, Vegetation, Wetland/Riparian, Wildfire
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