Fairfax Council tables reading of ordinance to allow power plant construction

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FAIRFAX — Despite Alliant Energy’s announcement that it is “deprioritizing” a site in Fairfax that had been proposed for construction of a new gas-fired power plant — and will seek an alternative location — city officials and residents in the small Linn County town haven’t stopped debating the issue.

The Fairfax City Council voted 4-1 Tuesday to table the second reading of an ordinance that would create an exception to the city’s industrial zoning code to allow construction of a power plant within city limits. The first reading was approved in September .

“I, personally, with this ordinance — until Alliant comes back to us saying that they do want to reconsider Fairfax as a possible locat