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Cape ZBA declares wind turbine illegal
Personal wind turbines taller than 35 feet are illegal, the town's Zoning Board of Appeals decided Monday.
The ZBA voted unanimously at its monthly meeting that Roger D. Alexander's 92-foot-tall residential wind turbine is in violation of the town's zoning law.
"It is theoretically a turbine, but we have nothing in the zoning laws to do with that," ZBA Chairman Edward P. Bender said. "So we're going to treat it as an accessory structure."
August 5, 2009
by Jaegun Lee
in Watertown Daily Times
CAPE VINCENT - Personal wind turbines taller than 35 feet are illegal, the town's Zoning Board of Appeals decided Monday.
The ZBA voted unanimously at its monthly meeting that Roger D. Alexander's 92-foot-tall residential wind turbine is in violation of the town's zoning law.
"It is theoretically a turbine, but we have nothing in the zoning laws to do with that," ZBA Chairman Edward P. Bender said. "So we're going to treat it as an accessory structure."
Section 585 of the zoning law, which deals with accessory structures on individual lots, limits the height of accessory structures to 35 feet.
However, the structure is... [continue via Web link]
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