Watertown Daily Times | Zoning process working in Cape Vincent
WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 2009
The town of Cape Vincent is not in the mess the wind opposition would have you believe exists. The only mess for them is that the town has not outlawed utility-scale wind development. The town zoning law does cover wind turbines. It states quite clearly that setbacks for structures greater than 30 feet be set one foot for each additional foot of height. Couple this with the environmental impact statement process now being completed by the developers in which any reason for greater setbacks would come to light and could be mitigated by greater setbacks. This is the purpose of the process, and it should be allowed to work.
The only reason the few people in Cape Vincent who are against utility-scale wind development want a wind-specific zoning law is so that wind power can essentially be outlawed as was done in the town of Lyme.
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