Stop Whining About Your View!!!

                                        What?  You don't like your new country view? 

                        Sorry, suck it up, your new zonning law doesn't protect your view!!!

                                                                 Turbines on Wolfe Is.

Recently the town’s new zoning lawyer was reported as saying he can’t defend language in a law that would restrict or eliminate industrial wind turbines because of the way they look or that somebody doesn’t like them in their view.  Apparently he is not willing to defend Cape Vincent’s  many beautiful scenic view sheds. He just threw out much of what our current Comp Plan and Zoning actually are attempting to protect… VIEW. 

How does that play out for implementing a Property Value Assurance Guarantee  (PVA)  that the town board and zoning committee has been endorsing.  Seems to me that you just threw most of that right out the window!

When you talk about property values or what makes one property more attractive and valuable than the next, ever hear a realtor say the 3 things that make a property valuable or attractive for sale is   …Location…Location…Location!  Well in very large part what is factored into the value of  location is VIEW,  the very thing the zoning attorney says he won’t defend in a zoning law.

So if your zoning laws or Comp Plan won’t protect the VIEW because the attorney says it’s not defendable then what happens? You would no longer have that recourse to back a PVA claim.   If a person wants to move because they are disturbed by the view of wind turbines and can’t sell their home because nobody wants to look at the turbines, then what?  That is not a valid reason and the law and attorney  is saying so.   Seems to me the wind developer would say VIEW is not a valid reason to make a claim on a PVA and the attorney  and our laws would be backing up the wind developer!  The wind company could say that there are no guarantees in your zoning laws that protect your view, so when our turbines went up and screwed up your view and made your property nearly worthless…suck it up!!! We are not going honor a claim on that premise that your view is defendable and in fact we know were we can get an attorney that will defend our position!!!!