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Seneca Township voters to decide wind ordinance fate
Seneca Township voters will decide Aug. 7 whether to keep a wind energy ordinance unanimously approved by the township board of trustees in March.
The ordinance prescribes rules for wind energy turbines such as how far the turbines would have to be set back from dwellings and what sound levels would be allowed.
August 2, 2012
by John Mulcahy
in Daily Telegram
SENECA TWP, Mich. - Seneca Township voters will decide Aug. 7 whether to keep a wind energy ordinance unanimously approved by the township board of trustees in March.
The ordinance prescribes rules for wind energy turbines such as how far the turbines would have to be set back from dwellings and what sound levels would be allowed.
A group of citizens collected enough signatures to put the ordinance on the ballot for possible repeal.
The ordinance allows wind turbines to be built on land that is zoned agricultural. The turbines would have to be set back from the nearest dwelling... [continue via Web link]
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