My concern is with turbine sites numbers 34, 35 and 36 located off of Brown Hill Rd as their placement, as numerous studies have shown, will decrease my property value for future resale because of the adverse quality of life and health issues they present as unrelenting noise, strobe lights and vista devaluation from turbines that will be placed on a hill top appx. 200‘ higher that my property for a 625’ tall monsterous structure to be part of my daily life in the future.
This planning board had the opportunity to address this kind of injustice as it had initially recommended to the town board a “Property Devaluation Bond” to be part of local law #2 as to protect property owners adversely effected by improper industrial turbine placement, enabling the property owner to recover any damages caused in this manner from UPC but was rejected outright by Supervisor J. Zigenfus’s unsubstantiated and subjective view as being too vague to be even considered and was summarily and conveniently voted down by the remaining town board members never to be revisited again by the planning board and by not doing so, provided no lawful recourse in local law#2 for landowners looking for relief should they be adversely impacted by the improper industrial turbine placement other than the courts.
Both boards in their all too familiar and predictable behavior, with not one single member ever dissenting, revealed unmistakably that that their only true allegiance was to invariably comply with the instructions dictated by UPC and their lawyers and not to the adjacent town property owner also being adversely effected by the wrongful industrial wind tower placement. Similar pleas from people all across this town have gone unanswered by this planning board, asking the board to find a solution in protecting a life time of investment in their homes and property, summarily ignored time after time to all their concerns in spite of volumes of valid data submitted supporting and reinforcing their dissenting views. As the lead agency, each and every member of this planning board to date has shown gross negligence by knowingly and intentionally siding with UPC and leaseholders, ignoring valid facts and refusing to address properly the concerns of health and/or protection of land values of adjacent landowners effected in this project. This board has been nothing more than a rubber stamp for UPC. With my home and property in jeopardy you leave me no other recourse but to seek relief through the courts directed particularly at the planning board as each of these commercial industrial turbines are made operational.
Also for reference as part of the official record of this public hearing a document dated November 15, 2006, SDES, Directory L, Property Value by Cushman & Wakefield Inc., File 06-34001-9569 previously presented to the Town of Cohocton Town Board as required by Cushman & Wakefield. P.Barton DeLacy, who signed this report for Cushman and & Wakefield states in part “The most significant new information since my last visit to southwest New York” was a report who’s author was Ben Hoen pertaining to property values impacted by turbine placement. This was presented in a misleading manner of being expert testimony but was in fact only a publication of a college student’s thesis and was rightly dismissed by Mr George Sterzinger, a prominent wind authority, as being weak and misleading. This subject in its entirety was covered of my concerns in a report submitted to the planning board dated January 18, 2007 pertaining to the SDEIS Directory l, Property Value of Cushman and Wakefield. The report from Cushman & Wakefield contained questionable facts an merely a necessary, paid for by and self serving tool of UPC to promote their interest and agenda at the expense of others.
This town has been badly served at best by this sitting planning and town board and does not have my respect at all. Property sales already have been lost in this town as potential buyers learn about the introduction of commercial industrial wind turbines and buy elsewhere. The boards collusion with UPC at the expense of adjacent property owners is obvious. Unless a dramatic policy change is imminent addressing this serious matter, you will be costing the town of Cohocton taxpayers thousands of dollars in legal fees as court proceedings are initiated. Ladies & gentlemen, with a substantial investment in my home and property hanging in the balance and abhorrent quality of life change probable, this is not a game we will be playing based on a college kid’s thesis.
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