Capsule Reports - Friday, Nov. 23, 2024

Commission OKs

Jay County Plan Commission approved two requests Thursday.

Plan commission approved an amendment to construction timelines on Scout Clean Energy’s solar farm development plan for its Sun Chief Solar project, a 100-megawatt facility planned on approximately 1,200 acres northeast of Redkey. Per the new timeline, Scout must begin construction on the facility no later than Dec. 31, 2026, with completion set for no later than Dec. 31, 2027.

Also Thursday, commission members Michelle Penrod, Todd Skirvin, Steve Ford, Chad Aker and Scott Hilfiker, absent Brad Daniels, Dru Mercer and Jeanne Houchins, approved a petition from Darrick Plummer of rural Geneva to re-zone two parcels in Pennville to be used for a mobile home park.

Plummer plans to convert the lot west of South Street just south of Max Drive and the lot south of Daily Lane into a mobile home park. Plan commission OK’d rezoning the roughly 12-acre plot from a single family residential to a multi family residential property.