Thursday, April 26, 2007 Cohocton Planning Board (Lead Agency) Public Hearing on Site Approval for UPC Cohocton/Dutch Hill Project. This is your last opportunity to submit written opposition documents into the legal record on site locations. The Cohocton Planning Board will soon be voting on the issuance of special use permits.
Time for this public hearing is 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM at the Cohocton Elementary School, 30 Park Ave., Cohocton, NY.
You will be able to address and make verbal comments before the Planning Board. Be specific with your remarks to individual turbine locations and siting problems. Obtain a receipt for any documents that you will submit.
THIS PUBLIC HEARING IS PREMATURE AND SHOULD NOT TAKE PLACE. Register your objection to this unlawful process and tell the Planning Board they bear the legal responsibility of damages stemming from their illegitimate actions.
Express your OUTRAGE at the “rubber stamp” conduct of Planning Board. To this date NO response by the Cohocton Planning Board has been provided to the thousands of pages of opposition documentation that are part of the legal record.
The Planning Board acts as the “TOOL” of the UPC developer. There has never been any independent and common sense perspective that provides for the public safety and protection of all Cohocton property owners.
Demand that the honorable course for each and every planning board member is to vote down any “special use” permit or resign and put a stop to the fraud of the single UPC project. Cohocton and Dutch Hill are really one big industrial development.
The SEQRA procedure has been circumvented and abused at every stage in the process. The chairman of the planning board admits that he does what he is told to do. The Albany law firm, paid for by UPC, admits that they work only for the Cohocton Town Board. The factual translation is that attorney Todd Mathes represents UPC.
Cohocton citizens were told by attorney Daniel Ruzow, from the same law firm, there would be a separate and individual public hearing on EACH site location for every industrial wind turbine. This has not happened and is one more example of the lies, deception and deceit that is the hallmark of this UPC project.
Cohocton residents and property owners need to demand accountability and restitution for the theft of our land and endangerment of our public health. Come out and express your disgust and disdain for the UPC development to the Cohocton Planning Board.
They can vote to deny site approval for ANY specific industrial wind turbine. It is up to you to insist that “special use” permits must not be issued. In the event that such approval is granted, legal action will be constituted against each particular turbine and all participants involved in this illegal scam.
Leaseholders bear the final economic responsibility for damages and will be named in future legal actions. Cohocton has been ill served by the decisions of the Planning Board.
Come to this public hearing and tell the planning board to put an end to this disgraceful abuse of the public trust.
James Hall
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