Dumb It Down If That Helps Simplify It For You!

Let me make a couple things clear. First despite the desperate attempts of one or two commenters to align me with the pro wind side, there isn’t enough money on the planet that  would convince me to support  the circus act of  characters put forth by CFG. But that is just dumbing it down to some soap opera so some of you can comprehend!

And the series of zoning discussions I have put forward are not about discrediting the current govt.  That too is a simpleton’s view of the issues from both the pro and anti wind camp in attempts by both sides to polarize an important issue and dumb it down to political group think  in an election year so people who can’t think for themselves can pick something simple and not too confusing to stand behind. 

My point here is to expose how our govt, as well as other local govts have been so manipulated  by the State they have become frantic and irrational in their attempts to try put forth a façade of control over the wind issue and it’s zoning when in fact they don’t have any control.  The State removed it!

In our local governments  desperation  to appease the insidious State and corporate  manipulation and  removal of home rule on wind regulation, our zoning attempts have become irrational, inconsistent, and illogical. Rather than take a stand and do the obvious to prohibit this insane wind onslaught that will destroy our communities and region, and the removal of our critical rights, our town govts are caught in a desperate situation.  They are  trying to  do an impossible balancing act on a thin high wire trying to look anti wind and pro wind in the same instant, when ironically they don’t even get to make the final decision.  It’s like there is a tornado coming and we are going to have the picnic anyhow, because we have this picnic every year at this time come hell or high water.  The real point being that to try to use traditional zoning practices simply does not work ,nor is it even relevant to controlling 500 ft. monster moving flashing structures in any landscape, not to mention one of incredible scenic beauty and environmental importance, or one where nearly the entire economy depends on that quality.  And BOTH sides in this debate, the Hirschey govt. AND  CFG  think it is a relevant zoning practice for what can't be zone BOTH SIDES!!!  Please note that our CURRENT zoning by our CURRENT govt. ALLOWS wind development!!!

Our election sare nothing more than bickering over HOW MUCH the town will  be destroyed, a little or a lot or something yet to be defined by the State!  That isn't an election, it's a community suicide pact!

And both sides and the State are trying to convince you to close your eyes and pull the trigger!!!

Wake up and look across the River…the entire zoning paradigm has radically changed with the introduction of industrial wind, yet we still zone like these monsters are just back yard sheds, or a new deck that when you drive around the corner no one will see!

 

With 500 ft. monster structures that can be seen for 30 miles, typical zoning districts for protection NO LONGER COUNT!  Not only will they not count in your town, they won't count for numerous towns around you.  But both sides in this election, and no matter who is elected  will still ticker around with them like they are somehow relevant.

Seriously, allow 400 or 500 ft. monster, moving, flashing structures radically changing the entire character and beauty of the town and region , and then zone out a logo on that structure because you are worried about the visual aesthetic impact…get real!!!  And this somehow  actually makes you think you have control over your community????? 

Sorry folks, but whether it be CV, Clayton, Hammond or any other town, or whether it be pro wind or anti wind , that zoning reasoning is sheer stupidity and is one  graphic demonstration of just how far the State’s threat of Art.10 has manipulated and distorted our thought processes of supposedly rational smart people.

The debate is not about some election, or some local political action group, or cast of characters, who have already had their rights removed and their simplified ideas to cling to.    If that is what you require to remain politically and mentally  comfortable under the State’s rights onslaught then you can do whatever you need to do  to characterize me one way or the other or dumb this down to whatever level makes you happy.

This is not about Hirschey, or CFG. Hirschey just happens to be in power at the moment. 

 It is about how the State has turned us ALL into brainless automatons  to level the field from any real opposition for run amuck corporate political power to erase our community and environment!

If we are going to actually  save ourselves and our region, we have to get out of this fruitless election box hoopla about a cast of soap opera characters, BOTH of whom WILL zone from wind development.

With the entire 1000 Islands region in the balance we have to get out of this box and juvenile thinking that  our town zoned our turbines better than your turbines, ha ha ha , when the real point is if we zoned for the placement of industrial wind development at all we have ALL been deluded by the State.

As communities we better make the critical zoning paradigm shift real soon or no matter who is elected there will be NO hope for our region.

 

The zoning notes will continue!