I was at a meeting tonight where someone objected because we sold a lot in the industrial park to a firm that is planning on covering the empty lot with solar panels
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Your area sounds more batshit insane with every new rant you post.
This person objecting was just one idiot, right? He/she doesn't actually have the power to stop solar panels from going up just by complaining about it? Right?
Did you tell the fool that he could stop the development by buying and maintaining the lot himself?
My next door neighbor is that guy. He wanted what's now our lot to be his lot, and purported to be willing to buy it, but not at the price the seller was asking. He was apparently deeply offended that We Bought His Lot.
Everyone else was happy, though, because he didn't mow it regularly, and it was full of field mice.
The same thing happened to my in-laws. They wanted the lot in front of their house, but weren't willing to pay the asking price, so someone else bought it, stuck a house on it, and moved in. And now they hate having such close neighbors.
We have similar (yet smaller scale) issues come to our HOA. We live in a live/work loft in what was always a light industrial area. This week, a resident is complaining about a mechanical noise that is coming from *somewhere* outside (not connected to our building) and sort of wants our HOA to spearhead doing something about it.
Pay no mind to that disclosure you signed when you bought pointing out the various noises, truck traffic, etc that one might have to adjust to when living in a mostly industrial area.
Also, I'd take solar panels in the lot next to me any day over the next building that's springing up right against (I can touch it) my patio. Lot line to lot ling building is common in SF.
I loathe solar panels, because they are nothing more than subsidy rape, they contribute negligible amounts of electrivity at exhorbitant costs, with teh primary price burden going to the taxpayor.
That said, the reasoning, that they're in what you erroneously thought was a buffer to an industrial park is ludicrous.
We had the same problems here over the last 10 years siting windmills (Windmills are a somewhat less ignorant form of "renewable" energy, in that they actually *do* make utility-scale electricity at utility-scale prices, their problems don't come in until production exceeds 10% of total generated electricity). The windmill people were prevented from siting them at 4 successive locations, all of them sheltered, all of them extremely rural. I always thought they were pretty, and the sound is inaudible from twice the height of the towers.
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Your area sounds more batshit insane with every new rant you post.
This person objecting was just one idiot, right? He/she doesn't actually have the power to stop solar panels from going up just by complaining about it? Right?
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I agree with this 100%.
Did you tell the fool that he could stop the development by buying and maintaining the lot himself?
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My next door neighbor is that guy. He wanted what's now our lot to be his lot, and purported to be willing to buy it, but not at the price the seller was asking. He was apparently deeply offended that We Bought His Lot.
Everyone else was happy, though, because he didn't mow it regularly, and it was full of field mice.
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Pay no mind to that disclosure you signed when you bought pointing out the various noises, truck traffic, etc that one might have to adjust to when living in a mostly industrial area.
Also, I'd take solar panels in the lot next to me any day over the next building that's springing up right against (I can touch it) my patio. Lot line to lot ling building is common in SF.
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That said, the reasoning, that they're in what you erroneously thought was a buffer to an industrial park is ludicrous.
We had the same problems here over the last 10 years siting windmills (Windmills are a somewhat less ignorant form of "renewable" energy, in that they actually *do* make utility-scale electricity at utility-scale prices, their problems don't come in until production exceeds 10% of total generated electricity). The windmill people were prevented from siting them at 4 successive locations, all of them sheltered, all of them extremely rural. I always thought they were pretty, and the sound is inaudible from twice the height of the towers.
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