Zoning Enforcement???? Nahhh... That Is Just For Suckers!

Why is this wind turbine fiasco still allowed to remain standing?  For 5 years it has not been operational. 

 Can you say zoning enforcement???  Apparently the CV town govt can't!!!!

It has been up since 2009 and the only time it has operated  is when it  was wildly out of control in a high wind storm. It was put up under an illegal permit fiasco and declared illegal by the CV ZBA, and when the owner sued the town the court even upheld the ZBA decision, and still sits there like a giant finger flipping off town zoning and the court! 

 I believe it was just about a year ago that the Cape Vincent zoning officer told the owner that he either had to finish the project and make it operational or remove it.

So what happened and why is it still standing? 

It is  obviously not operational now and will most likely rack up another summer as an expensive eyesore and osprey nest stand.  In fact today I actually did see an osprey sitting on it eyeballing it for another nest site!  Wonder if the osprey has a zoning permit???

Of course this sits on the same site as last summer's solar zoning fiasco that was created by our "zoning experts" who couldn't read their own zoning law, and our very own town supervisor who had his own illegal solar project he had to take down because again our "zoning experts" couldn't read the law they wrote.  After nearly a year that solar project on the original wind turbine fiasco site  hasn't materialized either even though our town "zoning experts" and most of the town govt jumped thought all kinds of hoops trying to make their f!#%up look legal!!!

So much for zoning!!! 

 Maybe we should call it a zoning "suggestion" not a zoning "LAW".  And it appears  the more money you have to sue the town the more of  a "suggestion" our zoning" law" is.

Now we have the water dist 2 fiasco and the town once again appears to be in  an appeasement game with the people involved.  Of course it doesn't hurt when one of the person's involved is a state official to get the schmooze treatment from the current town govt.

Hmmm...is there a trend here how the CV  town govt enforces it's rules and regulations????  Money and power talks and sh@#! walks???

Or should I say doesn't enforce them.  Of course with the current trend we could save a bunch of money and just get rid of the zoning enforcement officer and our other "zoning experts"!