Lee County Zoning and Planning

On May 23, Lee County Board members voted 12-4 to grant a special use permit to Woosung Solar LLC to build a 5-megawatt commercial solar energy facility on the southeast corner of Pilgrim Road and state Route 26 in Palmyra Township.

A 5-megawatt commercial solar energy facility in Palmyra Township got the special use permit developers need to move forward with the project when the Lee County Board voted 17-1-1 to grant it.

On April 10, ZBA members unanimously voted to recommend the Lee County Board approve Ironwood Projects’s petition to build a 5-megawatt commercial solar energy facility on property adjacent to 464 Kilgore Road, Dixon.

The Lee County Zoning Board of Appeals is scheduled to make a recommendation Wednesday evening regarding a proposed 5-megawatt commercial solar facility in Palmyra Township.

The Lee County Planning Commission sent an ordinance that would have allowed up to six chickens in unincorporated single-family residential areas of the county back to the Lee County Zoning and Planning Office for revision.

Several zoning meetings are scheduled over the next two weeks in Lee County. Here is an in-depth look at how the zoning process is carried out, according to county officials.