Evaporation Rate!

Today was a gorgeous day and the air was much drier than some recent days.  On drier days like this things evaporate much more quickly....like for example the comments on Mr. Wiley's JLL blog. Those comments seems to be evaporating like a puddle on  a hot AZ sidewalk.

In fact when the discussion got a little too hot to handle in terms of defending the town board then Rick started even blocking himself!!!

There is a post on JLL about Harvey White's met tower and how you can see it from a lot of places around town and the village.  Wiley compares this to what the 500 ft. BP wind turbines will look like and how this will drive down property values as a result.  Now keep this in mind that the post is basically about the VIEW!

One reader came on the blog and commented that the town did not provide direct scenic protections in its zoning law, only health safety and welfare noise birds etc.  He also referred to a push to get the 1000 islands as a place of state scenic significance.

 The town or Wiley doesn't want to talk about this or for you to think about it too much, but when it came to directly protecting the CV scenic view their zoning lawyer said he couldn't defend a law that stopped or restricted something because of the way it looked...you know like BP's 500 ft. massive spinning flashing industrial wind turbines that will be seen across our region.

Mr. Wiley came back with a comment under his own post to the previous commenter  saying the usual how wonderful the town has dealt with the Art. X process yada, yada, yada, but then to my amazement Wiley said that the best approach on the scenic issue was best left to CV and regional citizens to write the NYPSC telling them to protect CV's and the 1000 Is. scenic viewshed.

You mean its up to the citizens to protect the scenic beauty of CV...but NOT the town in their law?

So we are supposed to write letters to the NYPSC telling them to protect the scenic value of our town and region, but our own town board takes the zoning lawyers advice and won't back that up in their own law? 

What Wiley is admitting here and why this series of comments were quickly removed including one by me like this post is that the town DIDN'T really provide any tough scenic protections from industrial wind in our new zoning (Go Figure) and Wiley knows it but doesn't want you to think about it or even hear a discussion about it. So I don't know what version you will get but it won't be the truth!

And why would that be?  Oh that's right...because instead of our board going to out right tough restrictions in our zoning for scenic protection, instead they are trying to not be too burdensome and appease the Art. X process. 

Keeping in mind of course that the scenic view is in large part what makes CV what it is and in large part is the very root of the economy in CV.  So the one thing that really is THE biggest issue here in protecting CV and the region (VIEW), and even its economy and home  values...the town just took a pass on that one in their law!!!  Oh well!!!

But here is the other issue, and legally it s more important. 

There are no real tough scenic protections in our law. The lawyer says you can't have them.  Wiley says instead that is best handled by us writing the NYPSC instead of the board having those restrictions in our law. Of course anyone with a brain cell knows the only way to protect the views is to BAN the damn industrial turbines in the first place.  But we didn't do that. It would not be reasonable to ACTUALLY protect the CV viewshed.   However, if you have a comp plan like ours that is all about protecting the scenic view...but allow some wind development as our law does, and doesn't add tough scenic protection.  Then our zoning is not in accordance with the intent of our comp plan!!!  Now you have a legal issue.

And NYS says if you adopt a plan your zoning must be in line with your plan.

Once Wiley read through all this, including my comment explaining it that he never posted,  I am sure he figured it out and realized that he was putting his favorite CV Hirschey govt in deep dooo dooo by admitting our law doesn't really deal with scenic protection, and then suggesting CV citizens should write the NYPSC and take up that slack the board and their new law didn't take care of sufficiently!!!

No wonder Clayton says our law allows turbines too close to the river and their town borders! And Wiley thinks CV is the Art X expert that should be advising Clayton!!!

This is the kind of crap you end up tripping all over yourself with when you appease the state in fear of Art. X.

Well anyhow Rick...thanks for publicly clearing it up for us all that the town really didn't provide enough for the scenic protection of CV, and that we as citizens will have to do that for the town board and their law!

Somebody want to tell me what sense it makes to write the NYPSC about protecting the CV scenic views when the town won't even back that position?????

And Rick you are invited to come on here any time and enter this discussion and clear this all up if you like.  If you keep blocking your own comments trying to protect your town board and their law pretty soon you won't have anything left to say!!!