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No Industrial Solar on This Prime Farmground!

On Aug. 27, 2025, the Tippecanoe Board of Zoning Appeals DENIED a Special Exception request to allow an industrial-scale solar installation to build on AA Prime Farmground in rural West Lafayette.

The seven-member BZA voted 4-3 against a 1,790-acre, 120-megawatt array proposed to spread panels across three square miles of ground near Montmorenci, seven miles west of West Lafayette.

Neighbors organized into TIPPECANOE COUNTY RESIDENTS AGAINST UTILITY SCALE SOLAR (TCRAUSS) to oppose the project. They raised money for legal representation and over 30 of them stood up during almost six hours of testimony to discuss deficiencies and the harm done by the proposed plan.
Listen to the full hearing.

Thanks to this strong community support, we already won a critical victory—the BZA voted NO to the industrial solar installation.  But the developers have now filed an Appeal in court, so the fight isn’t over.
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Support our Cause

We need your support to fund vigorous, assertive, and appropriate legal support of the BZA decision and to defend the rights of the surrounding property owners.
Your contribution will also support ongoing land-use ordinance review and development in Tippecanoe County. 

What's the problem?

The problem is location and scale: this very massive industrial-scale project does not belong in productive agricultural fields surrounded by residential homes.

 

It will destroy prime farmland in exchange for production of electricity that will be used elsewhere and could also be produced in other, sunnier, less agricultural places.

 

There’s also economic loss for farm-related businesses, reduced property values, soil erosion, drainage, and groundwater issues, harm to wildlife, and visual aesthetics.

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