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The Porter County Plan Commission seeks to repeal a 2020 ordinance which allowed solar farms to

A unanimous eight-member vote by the Porter County Plan Commission at a special meeting Wednesday is the first step for revising and recommending a new ordinance for solar projects in Porter County.

The Porter County Plan Commission will hear a recommendation Wednesday evening from a special subcommittee of its members on whether to revise, repeal and replace, or do nothing with the county’s three-year-old solar amendment in the wake of roiling controversy surrounding the Malden Solar project proposed by NextEra Energy Resources.

Essentially what St. Andrews Development proposes is to slide the border between the two zones to the south to allow the new homes to be built.

Ashly Gajda said a pole barn on her property is almost complete and would include temperature-controlled rooms for the heat- and cold-sensitive animals, and traffic to her home would be at a minimum.

The Daily Universe Engineering student Josh Cannon adjusts the antennas on the Passive Inspection CubeSat created by BYU engineering students. This is BYU’s first ever satellite made by BYU students. (Nate Edwards/BYU Photo) Over 60 BYU engineering students will make history on Dec. 19 when BYU’s first satellite is launched into space. “I know so many ways it could go wrong. But if it goes right, I will be just over the moon,” said electrical engineering graduate student and system ...