By JAEGUN LEE
TIMES STAFF WRITER
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2013
THREE MILE BAY — In an effort to make its “small wind law” proposal more reasonable, town officials are considering allowing residents to install personal turbines up to 125 feet tall.
Initially, Lyme planners, who were given the task to draft zoning rules for private turbines, wanted to keep the structures at or below 80 feet.[Watertown times]
NOTE:In 2008, a group of land owners filed a lawsuit against the town of Lyme because they felt that Lyme's law effectively banned the development of wind-generating facilities within the town.
Mr. Kingsley was one of the Plaintiffs in this Article 78 proceeding against the town of Lyme.
BP outreach specialist Marion Trieste talks about the about the above mentioned lawsuit in a
case study included in a NYSERDA educational brochure, directed at school children.
Link here to read the case study . Page 6~ Lesson # 13
[TOL Minutes July 9, 2008]
5 comments:
Mr. Kingsley's intent is clear -to erect his tower,
Not alot unlike Andrew Cuomo and ART. X, if the local zoning will not permit it, he will circumvent the law by utilizing the Agriculture exemption to municipal zoning.
If we are to continue the policy of local zoning, it is apparent there needs to be a restructuring of its authority. And by that I do not mean the recent ART. X legislation that virtually nullifies local zoning pertinent to wind power.
Zoning is useless and a sham if it cannot be enforced locally. The present status is an insult to anyone involved in the process of Comprehensive Planning.
Hopefully the Town of Lyme Planing leaders will not succumb to Mr. Kingsley threat,by watering down their restrictions,which presumably were arrived at with the considered intention of implementing the goals of their Comprehensive Plan.
It is the concept of zoning and local autonomy that is as much in jeopardy as is the quality of rural life.
A payback of 30 years? (Or never when you consider the turbine dying after 20 years).
And what happens to the economics after he has to pay lawyers?
Ag And Markets? Aubertine? Guess we see where this is headed.
The gentleman might want to confer with a man who put up a similar turbine. It has never produced a watt and it has turned into eyesore junk for the neighbors on 12 E between Clayton and the Cape.
This has the smell of Darrel Aubertine all over it. Is he going help British Petroleum, Marion and Voters for Wind to shove his archaic agriculture laws up the butt of his former friends in CV and Lyme? One thing that has come out of all this wind stuff is a loss of respect by many for the farming community.
It's normal for a man in his seventies to have problems with the erection of his tower.
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