Robert C. Strasburg II
60 Maple Ave.
Cohocton, New York 14826
Email rcs2nd@frontiernet.net
Phone 585-384-9318
Cell 585-703-1299
Fax 585-384-9318
March 26, 2007
Town of Cohocton Planning Board
Cohocton, NY 14826
Re: Wind farm development adjacent to my property at 4609 Pine Hill Road, Cohocton, NY TX. Map # 6-1-20.2
Chairman Ray Schrader and members:
I am an American and my landowner rights as such are being violated on a level indicative of a dictatorship. I am going to present some information that I ask you to review and consider concerning the inappropriate placement of wind turbines just off my property line.
Section § 274-b. of the NYS Town Law says:
Approval of special use permits.
4. Conditions attached to the issuance of special use permits. The authorized board shall have the authority to impose such reasonable conditions and restrictions as are directly related to and incidental to the proposed special use permit. Upon its granting of said special use permit, any such conditions must be met in connection with the issuance of permits by applicable enforcement agents or officers of the town.
According to the above stated law, you as the Planning Board have the right to make conditions that attach to your approval of any site plan.
If you look on the maps provided by the developer and locate turbine numbers 4 & 5 which are just south of Pine Hill Road, you will see the parcel of land my wife and I own just north of those turbines. The owner is incorrectly noted as Steven Snyder. I did not receive a letter from the developer as an adjacent landowner. How many others did not receive a letter because this developer does not have their facts strait? My wife and I intend this land to be used for investment and a possible site for our future home after we sell our home in the Village.
You will notice that the 1500 foot delineation marks from these respective turbines engulf every square inch of our property. To protect our property utilizing the 1500 foot setback part of Local Law #2, my wife and I applied for a building permit and we were granted one by the former Code Enforcement Officer Curt Helf which was then revoked by the current Code Enforcement Officer under instruction of the Town Board.
Although this revocation of our building permit was discriminatory, when we appealed to the Zoning Board of Appeals, we were again thwarted by Jack Zigenfus as he had the Town attorney prepare a letter for the ZBA chairwoman to sign refusing to hear our appeal. We are now engaged in the filing of an article 78 against all this discriminatory activity and we are petitioning the Planning Board not grant any special use permit until we have a chance to have our case heard in Court.
We are all members of the same Town and you have been given the charge of proper planning to protect the rights of your fellow citizens. Jack Zigenfus and the developer planning to install these turbines have not considered my right to build on my own land valid.
Under the guise of helping America with our energy need the developer has craftily formulated a plan to distribute propaganda supporting their false claim that what they are doing is going to make a difference in meeting Americas need for reliable electricity.
I am not going to argue the credibility of their claim. If you have an interest on this subject, there is sufficient evidence readily available to you that proves beyond a shadow of a doubt, that even after all the millions of dollars of our tax dollars being high jacked for this scam, if they are successful in perpetrating this fraud, all their turbines will amount to a contribution of less that 2% to our energy needs. What they will have successfully done, if you allow this, is to bilk the American Taxpayers of Billions of Dollars and make themselves filthy rich while we are left sacrificing what is a cherished right of any democracy… the right to own land and be reasonably protected by our government from seizure of our land for Corporate enrichment. Stop this seizure of private land. If you do not have time now to do what is right, when you finally realize what you have cooperated in doing… it will be too late.
These ravenous developers have joined with international funding sources to steal our rights by victimizing small Towns laden with board members that have no clue of what high finance, accelerated depreciation schedules, carbon credits, risk evasion schemes, N.Y.S.E.R.D.A tax credits, etc. are and what they really mean relative to the scope of this fraud. You are being duped into thinking you are doing something good for America. WAKE UP AND EDUCATE YOURSELVES AS TO WHAT IS BEING DONE TO YOU! YOU ARE PARTY TO THE NEXT ENRON SCANDAL!
These ravenous pigs have not left me one square inch of my property in which I can build on! Is it not interesting that we as American are spending Billions of Dollars to establish a Democracy in Iraq while you unsuspecting members of this Board are being manipulated to give away the very rights our soldiers are dying to give to others? Now I say unsuspecting because I believe that all of you except for Ted Walker are unaware of this. Ted, in my opinion, is aware of it, but because his family is in line to receive some of this treason money, he has joined forces with the scoundrels to make this happen. The burden lies on the rest of you that are not bought and paid for to educate yourselves to what is going on right in front of your eyes and you are taking an active role in!
Think about this: David Storms from 58 Maple Avenue right here in Cohocton is now oversees fighting to help the Iraqi’s establish democracy. He is a young man that was raised in this Town, now 19 years old and putting his life on the line to help foreigners gain what we have and you are being duped into giving away!
Meredith, I speak personally to you now. You started coming to the Town Board meetings months ago because you have a neighbor that was raising pigs and farm animal’s right next to your home and you did not like it. It was interrupting your life because of the smell and the nuisance of it all. You came to the meetings fighting mad, looking for justice and you are still actively involved in trying to establish laws that will protect you. What about my wife and me? Not only do my neighbors want to influence my property negatively with their choices, they want to seize my land and make it unfit to build on! Compare my plight with yours; am I not also suffering wrongfully? Should there not be better laws to protect me? What if this was your Mother that this was being done to? Are you going to be a part of giving away blood bought American rights to enjoyable privacy without the nuisances from neighbors dominating every moment of their life?
Ray, now I speak to you. You have heard the leaseholders stand up and say they should have the right to do what they want on their property. Are they the only landowners in this Town? What about my right to enjoy my property? What about yours? Under your leadership as chairman, shouldn’t your Board be engaged in planning for all the residents? What if this was your property they were seizing? The gluttonous pigs have not left me one inch of my property to build a house on… NOT ONE! If you do not have the character to lead this board correctly into protection that includes all… my wife and I petition your resignation. If you do not have the courage to be what you need to be in this position, please have enough courage to remove yourself! I prefer that you stay and do what is right! Your father called me the other day and you should sit and talk to him about what being an American is all about… HE GETS IT! Who do you trust more as a mentor, Jack Zigenfus and Wayne Hunt, or your own Father? Are you going to cave to the influence of these gluttonous developers and the pressure of the misguided Town Board?
Freda, now I speak to you. You live across the street from where David Storms grew up. Your grandsons frequent his house. What is his service worth to you? What are the American landowner’s rights that were bought and paid for with American lives worth to you? You have raised two sons that are police offices sworn to uphold the rights of Americans. What are you going to do now that you are faced with the choice of protecting those rights?
My wife and I petition this Planning Board to stop this seizure of private property for corporate enrichment. The Planning Board felt that a 1500 foot setback was the minimum that each private landowner should experience from these turbines from any dwelling. Stop this rapid assault by this developer, declare that the Town is going to give six months for each landowner to consider if they want their entire property protected from the influence of these turbines. If a landowner does not want to sigh off his right to be free from the negative influences of these turbines on his property, demand that the developer move each turbine back 1500 feet from his/her property line before issuing a special use permit.
Do not allow yourself to be part of urinating on these rights that were bought and paid for with American blood.
Sincerely,
Robert C. Strasburg II
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