Meanwhile, those opposed to a wind farm project locating here want more answers
Wednesday night’s first public hearing in what is scheduled to be a series of meetings used to collect data to form a county ordinance for wind energy conversion systems offered some surprises, none more interesting than recommendations the Henderson City-County Planning Commission staff made for the ordinance.
It also offered a bit of contention, as both the planning commission’s attorney and members of the public asked questions of representatives of the Rock Bluff Energy Project that that they said can’t be answered yet.
At the start of what turned out to be a more-than three-hour public hearing, planning commission Executive Director Brian Bishop presented the staff recommendations, which began with the suggestion of a maximum height of 200 feet with the possibility of a variance to go higher than that in limited circumstances…