May 6, 2013
Massachusetts

Wind moratorium extension on Shelburne agenda

By DIANE BRONCACCIO, Recorder Staff, Sunday, May 5, 2013, recorder.com

Annual town meeting voters will decide Tuesday night whether to extend the town’s wind turbine moratorium for another year, add a third full-time police officer, and whether to approve a new telecommunications bylaw.

The town meeting will begin at 7 p.m. in Memorial Hall.

Last year’s annual town meeting was dominated by talk of a commercial-scale electricity-generating wind turbine facility on Mount Massaemet, which resulted in a ban on “industrial scale” wind turbines and a one-year moratorium on so-called “on premises,” small-scale wind turbines to be used for electricity-generation for homes, farms or small businesses. The Planning Board had hoped to present a bylaw regulating the siting of small-scale turbines by annual town meeting time. Instead, town officials are asking to extend the moratorium to the 2014 annual town meeting, “to allow sufficient time to engage in a planning process to address the effects of such structures and uses in the town” and to develop bylaws that are consistent with sound land-use planning.

[More about the town meeting in original article at source]

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