Hearings on wind farm rules likely to run through autumn | Belvidere Daily Republican

 

Next up is the board’s Aug. 27 meeting, which will deal with other cases.

The next wind farm hearing will be at 7 p.m. Sept. 23, with about 12 more speakers yet to be heard. The process calls for each one to have a maximum of five minutes, with questions from the board and audience to follow.

If all of those speakers aren’t heard, the balance will be held over to the Oct. 22 hearing. At some point a recommendation will go to the county board for a final decision.

The hearing held July 23 lasted more than three hours, with two speakers being heard…..

 

Mainstream is proposing a setback of 3.1 times the tip height of the tower, now estimated at 529 feet, from the property line, with a possible waiver to 1,200 feet.

A non-participating property would have a setback of 1.1 times the tip height of the tower, with a waiver possible to 1.1 times the blade length.

The setback would be 1.1 times the tip height from roads and utilities, including pipelines, measured from the utility, not the easement.

Restricted landing areas would have a 3,000-foot setback from the end of the runway, with Poplar Grove Airport having a five-mile buffer. There would be a 1½-mile setback from all municipalities, including nearby Sharon, Wis.

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