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<blockquote data-quote="RDFF" data-source="post: 1799467" data-attributes="member: 39018"><p>1. Solar panels DO radiate heat back out into the atmosphere... they do NOT reduce the amount of heat in the area they are installed in.</p><p>2. IMO, solar panels covering a whole field are NOT aesthetically pleasing. I think they're "ugly"... but that's a matter of personal preference. As to the "view" that you appreciate across your neighbor's properties......... you didn't purchase THAT, when you purchased your property. You don't "own" the right to dictate what that view should be, anymore than your neighbor owns the right to dictate to YOU what YOUR property has to look like. Don't go playing the victim on that one... this is all about personal property rights.</p><p>3. Might what your neighbor does on his property potentially impact the value of your property? Absolutely... always has, always will. That doesn't, and SHOULDN'T infringe on HIS personal property rights, to do what he wants, on his property. If he's not "changing a watercourse" for example, thereby depriving you of water that you naturally had running directly across your property... or some other similar direct impact... you really don't have a legal basis for a right to complain...</p><p></p><p>When they began installing windmills, individuals both close to them and from many miles away would raise this "view" argument... complaining about the lights on top at night, etc. I won't try to tell you that this isn't an intrusion into the night skyscape... it is. I have them all around me here, and I can see those lights across the horizon on turbines that are 20 miles away. But I can also see the yard lights of all of my neighbors.......... and of the cities off in the distance. I see the lights of airplanes overhead, heading to the airport 6 miles away. And complaining that the mills themself would interfere with their "view" across the landscape during the day... a previously "unobstructed view" that they appreciated... and these windmills would just completely destroy that for them.</p><p></p><p>Now that they've been there for a while, people have gotten used to them... and they still see and appreciate the sunrises and sunsets much as they did before they were installed. People worried about their "property values" being negatively affected by them.............. but that was mostly only because they were worried about RESIDENTIAL property values going down... Now, 10-20 years later, people looking for a piece of land out in the country don't ever even consider that there might be a windmill somewhere nearby. I suspect that will also be the case for land in the country nearby to a solar field. I personally feel that the solar field will be a much bigger deterrent than will a windmill, honestly.</p><p></p><p>That being said, I don't care for either... but it just might be the reality. And if these things will help to deter the subdividing of farmland for residential development, then I'm generally "supportive". I believe that the creeping overtaking of agricultural districts by residential properties is a bigger threat to agriculture and an agrarian rural way of life than are windmills and solar panels.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RDFF, post: 1799467, member: 39018"] 1. Solar panels DO radiate heat back out into the atmosphere... they do NOT reduce the amount of heat in the area they are installed in. 2. IMO, solar panels covering a whole field are NOT aesthetically pleasing. I think they're "ugly"... but that's a matter of personal preference. As to the "view" that you appreciate across your neighbor's properties......... you didn't purchase THAT, when you purchased your property. You don't "own" the right to dictate what that view should be, anymore than your neighbor owns the right to dictate to YOU what YOUR property has to look like. Don't go playing the victim on that one... this is all about personal property rights. 3. Might what your neighbor does on his property potentially impact the value of your property? Absolutely... always has, always will. That doesn't, and SHOULDN'T infringe on HIS personal property rights, to do what he wants, on his property. If he's not "changing a watercourse" for example, thereby depriving you of water that you naturally had running directly across your property... or some other similar direct impact... you really don't have a legal basis for a right to complain... When they began installing windmills, individuals both close to them and from many miles away would raise this "view" argument... complaining about the lights on top at night, etc. I won't try to tell you that this isn't an intrusion into the night skyscape... it is. I have them all around me here, and I can see those lights across the horizon on turbines that are 20 miles away. But I can also see the yard lights of all of my neighbors.......... and of the cities off in the distance. I see the lights of airplanes overhead, heading to the airport 6 miles away. And complaining that the mills themself would interfere with their "view" across the landscape during the day... a previously "unobstructed view" that they appreciated... and these windmills would just completely destroy that for them. Now that they've been there for a while, people have gotten used to them... and they still see and appreciate the sunrises and sunsets much as they did before they were installed. People worried about their "property values" being negatively affected by them.............. but that was mostly only because they were worried about RESIDENTIAL property values going down... Now, 10-20 years later, people looking for a piece of land out in the country don't ever even consider that there might be a windmill somewhere nearby. I suspect that will also be the case for land in the country nearby to a solar field. I personally feel that the solar field will be a much bigger deterrent than will a windmill, honestly. That being said, I don't care for either... but it just might be the reality. And if these things will help to deter the subdividing of farmland for residential development, then I'm generally "supportive". I believe that the creeping overtaking of agricultural districts by residential properties is a bigger threat to agriculture and an agrarian rural way of life than are windmills and solar panels. [/QUOTE]
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