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Board votes down wind turbine
A Federal Hill woman seeking to become the first Baltimore resident with a wind turbine on her roof failed to win approval from city officials yesterday.
The effort by Marsha Vitow brought opposition from neighbors concerned about safety and aesthetics and confounded city officials ...
David Tanner, executive director of the board, said the members had a long debate but decided wind turbines were not a legal exception.
August 5, 2009
by Meredith Cohn
in Baltimore Sun
A Federal Hill woman seeking to become the first Baltimore resident with a wind turbine on her roof failed to win approval from city officials yesterday.
The effort by Marsha Vitow brought opposition from neighbors concerned about safety and aesthetics and confounded city officials, who work for a mayor with a "cleaner, greener" agenda but had to deal with the city codes now on the books. Vitow needed a variance to build above the 35-foot residential height limit but the law didn't allow for wind turbines.
"This will pave the way for a more progressive Baltimore," Vitow told the Board of Municipal... [continue via Web link]
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