grumpyoldman071

Extremely disappointed in the decision today from the Alabama Supreme Court to destroy the privacy of my home. Please keep your support and prayers coming.

Why does everyone else out in rural-residential or zoned agricultural areas have to following local zoning, but foreign solar and wind companies can depart from that zoning for industrial buildouts? This is the "take" that's going on across New York State, where patchworks of 20+ parcels are allowed to break zoning everyone else in the area has to follow. It's why property values plummet if you live near one of these ecological detention zones. Last week at the NYS Senate Energy ORES Roundtable, residents from around the state talked about how no one can sell their homes if they end up near an ORES complex. Would you buy a property and look at this view out your back window? People are in rural areas for peace/quite, viewsheds, history, ability to grow their own food, and the predictability that comes with rural zoning. You're allowed to do what you want with your property in this country... to an extent. Zoning exists to create uniformity and predictability in a region. It guarantees a certain property value for those around you. It's why you can't decide tomorrow to build a Walmart in your backyard (Mind you, Walmarts are about 20 acres, total, in size. These complexes are 1,000+ acres.). If these complexes were being built in zoned commercial/industrial areas, between highways, and over parking lots, you wouldn't hear the outcries that are pouring from rural New York towns statewide. Hard-working New Yorkers who have invested in their properties, land, habitats, views, and culture are being financially destroyed by bureaucrats in Albany who have never, in their lives, set foot in our rural villages. That's the problem here.