County committee sends carbon-storage permit rules to full board, moving to end moratorium
The Environment and Land Use Committee recommended Zoning Case 212-AT-26 with an amendment spelling out the moratorium's repeal.
URBANA - A Champaign County Board committee on Thursday recommended that the full County Board approve Zoning Case 212-AT-26, which would end the county's safety moratorium on carbon sequestration and instead allow carbon dioxide sequestration facilities by County Board special use permit, according to the committee's action report.
The Environment and Land Use Committee, with six members present, recommended the ordinance as amended to add an item deleting Section 5.5, the moratorium section of the zoning ordinance. The case would allow the facilities in every zoning district except R-5, the manufactured home park district, under the requirements in the amendment.
The committee placed the case on the consent agenda for the full County Board. The action report does not record a vote count.
The meeting video shows the committee taking up the case at 1:30:02.
Source: Champaign County Environment and Land Use Committee action report and agenda, Oct. 8, 2026; meeting video via Citizen Portal.