Huron
Daily Tribune
April
1, 2011
BY
KELLY JEROME
Tribune Editor
HURON COUNTY — After relatively little
public comment, the nine-member Huron County Planning Commission voted
unanimously to approve the Pheasant Run Wind Energy Overlay District
Wednesday evening during a special meeting and public hearing.
Pheasant Run could be the future home to a wind farm
located within portions of
Fairhaven
, Sebewaing,
Brookfield
, Winsor, Oliver and Grant townships. Wednesday’s vote gave RES
Americas the go ahead to move forward with the planned district within
Grant, Winsor and
Fairhaven
townships, said
Huron
County
Building
and Zoning Director
Russ Lundberg
.
Sebewaing,
Brookfield
and Oliver townships will have their own public hearings to finalize
zoning approval, he said.
“The other townships will take care of their business
sometime in the near future ... presumably sometime in the summer,” he
said.
Before
the vote, vice-chair Fred Hasen and board members Clark Brock, Ervin
Haley and Joel Weber disclosed they have wind energy leases, but they
would not refrain from voting on this district because the land they own
is not in the district. more...
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