Legal Notice
Corinna Township
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Supervisors of the Township of Corinna, Wright County, Minnesota, have adopted Ordinance 2023-01 (“Land Use Ordinance”), an Ordinance Amending Ordinance 2022-01 effective immediately. Amendments include changes to Sections 302 (Definitions), 501 (Zoning Administrator), 503 (Planning Commission), 505 (Conditional Use Permits), 506 (Permits and Fees), 603-606A and 608—612 (various Zoning Districts), 727 (Mining and Extraction), and 762 (Solar Energy Farms and Solar Energy Systems) of the Corinna Township Land Use Ordinance. The intent of the amendments is to increase the size of solar energy systems allowed by administrative permit from 10 to 40kW in all zoning districts; increase the size of solar systems considered to be solar energy systems from 100 to 200kW and solar farms to be those over 200 kW; continue to prohibit new solar farms; to clarify that the duties of the Zoning Administrator are to interpret applicable ordinances, address amendments to the Township zoning map, to add to the list of duties relating to enforcement of the ordinance and to clarify procedures for appealing interpretations of the zoning administrator; to clarify that the planning commission makes final decisions on conditional use permits; to add language for procedures relating to the discontinuance of conditional use permits; to modify definitions for “Access Drive (Driveway)”, Solar Energy Farm, Solar Energy System and Utility Interconnection, to increase the allowable time period for a mining and extraction interim use permit from one year to three years and make other amendments as being considered by Wright County; and to modify various permit application fees. A printed copy of the Ordinance is available for inspection by any person at the office of the Town Clerk, the office of the County Recorder, in the County Law Library, at the Annandale and Maple Lake Public Library and is available on-line for download at www.hometownplanning.com. Mary Barkley Brown, Corinna Township Clerk
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