County BZA continues Tamarack Solar's request for a Special Use with Monday night meeting

Monday, December 9, 2024 at 3:00 AM

By Kathy Bottorff

The Marshall County Board of Zoning Appeals will continue its special meeting on Monday at 6 p.m. at the Plymouth Wesleyan Church on South Michigan Road.

The only agenda item is the continuation of the request of Tamarack Solar Energy LLC for a Special Use to allow a 150 mega-watt Farm Scale Solar Energy System that has 1,435 acres within perimeter fencing in portions of West and Union Townships.

The BZA opened this meeting on November 7^th at Plymouth High School and it lasted 4 hours. That meeting was continued to December 3^rd and moved to Plymouth Wesleyan Church where again the meeting was nearly 4 hours long with no conclusion, so the County BZA continued it to tonight at 6 P.M. at Plymouth Wesleyan Church.

The two previous meetings are available on the county’s YouTube channel.

The BZA will then conduct their regular meeting on Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the County Building. The agenda includes a variance of development standard at 19298 2C Road in Walkerton for Robert & Pam Whisman. Eddie Borkholder is requesting a home-based business at 1511 3^rd Road in Bremen and Michael Hochestetler is asking for a Special Use to allow an increase of dogs to an approved kennel at 2484 2B Road in Bremen.

Also on Tuesday night’s meeting is a variance of development standard to allow a reduction in residential setback from the required 1,320 feet setback to 493 feet for a confined animal feeding operation at 3560 Grape Road in Bremen and a variance of development standard to allow an 81’ by 4 x 470’ chicken layer barn on Quince Road in Culver.

This meeting is open to the public, will be held in the second-floor meeting room, and streamed live on the county’s YouTube page.