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Lee rejects six turbines
The Lee Village Board earlier this week unanimously rejected a developer's plan to build six wind turbines outside the village but within one and a half miles of it.
The board met Monday in a packed firehouse, where a public hearing was held before the 6-0 vote opposing the request.
September 4, 2009
by Elena Grimm
in Daily Chronicle
LEE - The Lee Village Board earlier this week unanimously rejected a developer's plan to build six wind turbines outside the village but within one and a half miles of it.
The board met Monday in a packed firehouse, where a public hearing was held before the 6-0 vote opposing the request. The meeting lasted more than three hours, Village President Richard Boris said.
"The input was varied and didn't deal with aesthetics at all," Boris said of the public hearing.
Although the turbines were proposed to sit on unincorporated DeKalb County, state law allows municipalities to regulate wind farms within a... [continue via Web link]
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