Town Of Cohocton
Town Planning Board, Town Board of Cohocton, Sandy Riley,
My husband and I, within the past five months, have become residents of the town of Cohocton, NY. We had a dream retirement home built in the country, and we are presently working on the interior. We moved to the Town of Cohocton, from a small village,, in hopes of listening to the birds sing, have no neighbors, enjoy the serene countryside that abounds us,, but with attending several town board meetings, planning board meetings, and meeting new friends in this community, we find out, after building our home,, that there is plans of bringing in huge wind turbines. I find this quite disturbing, because when we applied for all the permits needed to build our home, that I designed, NOT ONE thing was mentioned to us about these monstrous turbines coming to our road, and others. I suppose we will never finish our home, nor the porch that was originally designed and planned for the front of our home, as we won’t want to sit on the porch and listen to or see these turbines. If we had known, previously to the fact, that these huge turbines were coming to our road, we NEVER, NEVER would have built here!
We are not against wind power, by all means, after all, we were denied electricity, by a farmer, (he didn’t want electric poles running across his fields, but its ok to have these monstrous turbines in his fields,,grrr) and now we have solar power and soon to be, our own personal windmill, which will ONLY be 100 feet in the air! (that is our ONLY power!)
We never expected to be so short lived in these beautiful hills! Once these monsters come in,, the hills won’t be beautiful anymore! We can sit outside, now, on any given day or night, and watch the deer, and fox and listen to the birds sing, the owls hoot, the turkeys calling, the coyotes howling, and just wildlife in general! It is so peaceful here, why are these turbines coming, just to please the farmers pockets???? Whether they know it or not, their milk production will greatly diminish! Awww, too bad,, It is my understanding, that it is going to cost more to take these monsters down, than what the farmers will profit from in the leasing of the land! Another thing that really boggles our minds, is the fact that if lightning strikes or if they malfunction, and catch fire, there is no equipment in our town or any surrounding towns big or tall enough to put these fires out! With the amount of oil that is stored in these generators, they could smoke for days, and wouldn’t that smoke be toxic?
With all the reading that we have done, there is nothing good to say about these turbines, as they will decrease our property values, raise our taxes, they cause accidents, the birding population will be affected immensely,,oh my God, I could go on forever,,,this is so wrong! Won't you please reconsider the beauty of our hillsides, that could be ruined for the rest of some peoples lives? This is our paradise! It is our home!!!!!!!!!! I think the setbacks of these turbines should be at least a mile from ANY property line!
Another thing,, I believe UPC is a scam! and that they are salesmen, and the town of Cohocton fell for it! what suckers! Why don't other town have these huge turbines? because they didn't fall for the scam!
Please reconsider our hillsides,,our homes,,our views, our feelings, and others! These don't belong in Cohocton,, they belong in NYC where they don't care what their hillsides look like! or in the ocean, the desert, ANYWHERE but here!
Sincerely,
Rebecca Conard
Could you please send me a receipt for this letter?
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