March 28, 2012
New York

County Planning Board OKs Lyme’s wind turbine moratorium

By CRAIG FOX, TIMES STAFF WRITER, TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 2012, watertowndailytimes.com

The Jefferson County Planning Board gave its informal blessing on Tuesday for the Lyme Town Board to pass another six-month moratorium on wind turbines.

Planning board members reviewed the extension on the moratorium and sent it back to the town “as a local concern” without making any comments. The extension would give Lyme’s Planning Board more time to draft a revised wind zoning law.

The town first passed a moratorium in 2007, which was extended several times for varying periods.

A public hearing on the moratorium will be held at 6:15 p.m. April 11 at the town offices, Route 12E, prior to the regular council meeting.

Last week, Supervisor Scott G. Aubertine said the town had hoped to put in place a revised wind law before the current moratorium, which was enacted at an Oct. 5 special meeting, expired.

The neighboring town of Cape Vincent enacted a moratorium on Feb. 7 halting all wind-power development until Sept. 7, giving it time to put together a new, and most likely more strict, wind-zoning law.

Mr. Aubertine has said Lyme’s new wind law will reflect the results of a recent townwide survey, which showed that a majority of residents were against wind development. Of the survey’s 1,621 respondents, 64 percent opposed turbines.

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