Allen Wiseley News Today

Nearly a year after death of longtime planning administrator Marta Moody, Delaware-Muncie Metropolitan Plan Commission has a new executive director.

After nearly two years under a moratorium, Delaware County will now allow rural solar energy projects to go forward that meet a newly passed zoning ordinance.  As IPR’s Stephanie Wiechmann reports, it includes a much lower limit on how many farm acres can be used for solar. For the first time

Marta Moody, 71, executive director of the Delaware-Muncie Metropolitan Plan Commission, died Sunday. She first started as a local planner in1979.

Delaware-Muncie Metropolitan Plan Commission Thursday endorsed having solar farms be a special use, requiring public hearings before approval.

A member of the Delaware-Muncie Metropolitan Plan Commission recommends the community approve - and then actually use - its new plan.

After a review by Municode, Muncie City Council will discuss revisions to the citys municipal code. Several ordinances could be on the chopping block.