Funny... just as I posted the post below about view I noticed over on Pandora's Box of Rocks that she has a post about Comp Planning. Her husband sits on the zoning committee, and whatever they come up with must be in accordance ( by NYS law) with the new CV Comp Plan.
Looks like she is softening us up for what's coming in the Comp Plan. That it won't protect the very thing we hold as precious in CV...the spectacular scenery!!! Well if that's the case then it opens the door wide for the zoning law to be weakened in terms of protecting our viewsheds. If you dilute the Comp Plan or make it so pointlessly vague, then you can get away with anything in your zoning and justify it. Here comes the back peddling!!! A quote from the PBR post
"However, although zoning ordinances can regulate development if adopted prior to project construction, even special zoning provisions may not necessarily entirely prevent wind energy development from occurring (Salkin and Donohue, 2005)".
If you can't prevent wind turbines and can only regulate them accodring to the PBR post, and that would be by either a "defacto ban" as the current zoning law is on wind or, by prohibiting them, then by logic you are going to get SOME to REGULATE.
And that is my fear...and that is where I think this is all heading!!!
STOP, The regional wind energy industrialization of one of New York State's most beautiful and environmentally sensitive areas, the 1000 Islands of the St. Lawrence River and the Golden Crescent of Eastern Lake Ontario. If you don't think you are seeing the most recent posts click on the current month in the archives to the right.
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