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Dear Editor:
Recently our County Board voted to allow an industrial solar farm to be established with few zoning restrictions. The Board's generalized thought process was "a man should be able to do with his property what he wants to..." The zoning restrictions they did impose was to keep the panels back from the neighbor's property line by 50 feet and back from the neighbor's house 100 feet. There was no valid process allowed for equal time, to those harmed, to register their concerns.
With that precedent established, lets see how the shoe fits the other way around:
Suppose your neighbor wants to establish an Adult Super Store (ASS) 50 feet from your property or 100 feet from your home. You are not allowed a rebuttal.
Perhaps more neighbors wish to establish other new ASS facilities on every corner of your property, such as an ASS parking lot, or an ASS warehouse. The warehouse has rows and rows of canopies, some 20 feet tall and 30 feet wide stretching to the horizon, blocking any view that you may have enjoyed from your property. The parking lots are covered with a reflective covering that has a glare, but the ASS people assure you and the authorities that no permanent damage to eyesight will occur.
Of course, the County does receive some taxes on whatever activities occur in the ASS big box and that does seem to have entered into their decision. The neighbors that host the ASS facilities are happy for they too are given a tiny taste of the profits generated by the facility.
Everyone one the County Board is happy because they don't live next to any of the ASS locations. And there is a certain segment of society that will advocate for the establishment of industrial ASS facilities, if not imposed in their backyard.
Yet.
Alan Jewell
Dodgeville