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Tecumseh, MI, Code of Ordinances
The city's zoning ordinance permits accessory solar energy systems in all districts and allows property owners to apply for a solar access permit. -
Rockwall, TX, City Code
The city's Unified Development Code allows accessory solar energy systems by right in all districts, subject to standards. -
Millersville, TN, Code of Ordinances
The city's subdivision regulations require solar site design to the extent feasible. -
Moraga, CA, Code of Ordinances
The city's code exempts solar panels from design review procedures and addresses solar orientation standards and easements for subdivisions. -
Windom, MN, City Code
The city's zoning code permits solar energy systems in all districts, subject to standards. -
West Union, IA, Code of Ordinances
The city's zoning code allows accessory solar collectors in residential and C-3 districts and allows for state-sanctioned solar access easements. -
Oak Grove, MN, Code of Ordinances
The city's zoning code defines inadequate access to sunlight as a practical difficulty for solar energy system variance requests. -
Venice, FL, Code of Ordinances
The city's subdivisions standards address solar orientation of lots and buildings. -
Norcross, GA, Code of Ordinances
The city's zoning code addresses non-building-mounted residential and commercial solar panel placement. -
Oakridge, OR, Zoning Ordinance
The city's zoning ordinance addresses solar access protections and solar design in planned unit development. -
Pinecrest, FL, Code of Ordinances
The village permits accessory solar energy systems in all districts and requires solar-ready home construction. -
Los Altos Hills, CA, Municipal Code
The city's code establishes protections against unreasonable obstruction of sunlight by trees, permits accessory solar energy systems in compliance with standards, and offers development area bonuses for rooftop solar energy systems. -
North Slope Borough, AK, Code of Ordinances
These subdivision regulations address solar in the standards for lots and blocks. -
Jefferson County, OR, County Code
The county's subdivision regulations include solar design standards and promote maximum solar access protections. -
North Aurora, IL, Code of Ordinances
The village's zoning ordinance permits accessory roof-mounted solar panels in all districts, subject to standards, and prohibits freestanding panels in residential districts. -
Prosperity, SC, Code of Ordinances
The town's zoning code allows solar energy systems in required yards and provides information on computing solar skyspace easements. -
Richmond, MI, Code of Ordinances
The city's zoning code allows accessory solar collectors in all districts, subject to standards. -
Springboro, OH, Codified Ordinances
The city's planning and zoning code provides supplemental standards for solar energy systems. -
Worland, WY, City Code
The city's zoning code allows solar energy system owners to apply for a solar permit to protect their rights to solar access and permits solar collectors as accessory uses in all districts; subdivision regulations encourage block design that allows for solar access. -
Wellington, KS, Code of Ordinances
The city's subdivision code includes design standards that encourage solar orientation and solar energy use, and it provides for the establishment of solar skyspace easements. -
Prairie du Sac, WI, Code of Ordinances
The village code provides for a Solar Access Permit to prevent "impermissible interference" for solar energy access to collector surfaces. -
Schaumburg Village, IL, Code of Ordinances
The village's zoning code permits accessory solar installations subject to standards and provides illustrations of solar energy systems, and its subdivision code addresses solar orientation of lots. -
Maplewood, MN, Code of Ordinances
The city's zoning ordinance permits accessory solar energy systems in all district subject to standards, prohibit solar-restrictive private covenants, and encourage solar access protections. -
Washington Township (Berks County), PA, Code of Ordinances
The township's zoning ordinance allows accessory solar energy systems in all districts, subject to standards. -
Milton, WI, Code of Ordinances
The city's zoning code provides supplemental regulations for solar energy systems and provides for solar access permits; the historic preservation ordinance provides review criteria for proposed solar energy installations. -
Reedsburg, WI, Municipal Ordinances
The city's zoning ordinance establishes a solar access permitting process. -
Tamarac, FL, Code of Ordinances
The city's zoning ordinance defines rooftop solar PV systems as permitted accessory equipment in all zoning districts, subject to standards, but does not provide solar access or restrictive covenant protections. -
West Lake Hills, TX, Code of Ordinances
The city's zoning ordinance allows attached accessory solar energy devices in all zones. -
Rocky Mount, NC, Code of Ordinances
The city's land development code provides flexibility in landscaping requirements to protect solar access. -
Taos, NM, Code of Ordinances
The town's building and zoning codes include a solar rights declaration protecting solar access to existing solar energy systems; design standards encourage incorporation of solar features into local architectural styles. -
Red Lion, PA, Code of Ordinances
The borough's zoning ordinance permits solar energy systems as accessory uses in all districts, subject to standards. -
Roselle, IL, Code of Ordinances
The village's zoning code encourages solar orientation in residential districts and addresses solar skyspace easements. -
Pella, IA, Code of Ordinances
The city requires special use permit approval for accessory solar energy systems; commercial solar energy systems are prohibited. -
Novato, CA, Code of Ordinances
The city's zoning ordinance encourages solar orientation and design, provides standards for solar collector installation, and provides for solar access easement covenants. -
Wheeling, WV, Codified Ordinances
The city's zoning code promotes solar orientation and solar access considerations in its standards for site plan review. -
MarpleTownship, PA, Township Code
The township's subdivision code includes design considerations for mobile home parks encourages an east-west axis orientation offering southern exposure to their longest wall and roof area. -
Northwood, OH, Code of Ordinances
The city's zoning code permits accessory solar panels in all zoning districts, subject to standards. -
Wasatch County, UT, County Code
The county's code permits flush-mounted rooftop solar panels in all districts by right; architectural guidelines in a Specially Planned Area encourage green design, including solar energy use and orientation. -
Morehead City, NC, Code of Ordinances
The city's unified development ordinance provides standards for solar panels. -
Middletown, MD, Code of Ordinances
The town's zoning code allows building-mounted solar collection systems in all district subject to standards; free-standing systems require special exception approval in all districts. -
Valley County, ID, County Code
The county's land use and development code permits attached solar panels in all districts and requires conditional use approval for detached systems greater than 8 square feet in area. -
Manhattan Beach, CA, Code of Ordinances
The city's zoning code provides for solar energy systems and requires tree removal where needed to protect solar access. -
Maple Grove, MN, Code of Ordinances
The city's zoning ordinance permits certain placements of solar energy systems by right in all districts; other placements require conditional use permit approvals. -
St. Bernard Parish, LA, Code of Ordinances
The parish's zoning code provides some flexibility in solar energy system placement. -
Naugatuck, CT, Code of Ordinances
The borough's subdivision regulations requires solar orientation and design for solar access; the zoning regulations create a planned district for cluster solar-residential community development. -
Oxnard, CA, Code of Ordinances
The city's zoning ordinance provides solar energy system design standards and solar access protections. -
Sedona, AZ, Land Development Code
The city's Main Street and Character Districts Design Manual addresses solar building orientation. -
Jackson Township, PA, Township Code
The township's zoning ordinance permits accessory solar energy systems by right in all districts, subject to standards. -
Andover, MN, City Code
The city's zoning code lists inadequate access to sunlight as a practical difficulty for granting a variance. -
Pine Island, MN, City Code
The city's alternative energy systems code provisions allow accessory solar energy systems in all districts and provide for solar access protections in residential districts.