Panel weighs rural zoning changes

The most recent draft of zoning ordinance changes proposed for Champaign County's rural areas calls for stricter controls on development of prime farmland and it scales back environmental protections along waterways.

According to a summary of the draft, which the county board's Environment and Land Use Committee discussed Wednesday night, landowners could build a swimming pool in an area classified as a public resource protection district, such as a nature preserve. And new development in the stream protection buffer zone, a 125-foot-long strip along a handful of the county's waterways, is discouraged.

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