The Winfield Township Planning Commission during a nearly three-hour meeting last Monday worked on fine-tuning a new solar energy ordinance to replace the one that failed in a voter referendum last summer. The five-member Planning Commission made multiple changes in multiple split votes to the draft ordinance which was created by the township’s law firm Bloom Sluggett.
April 7, 2021
Forget the think tanks and ivory towers of academia, or the centers of commerce and finance – the clean energy future that we need will succeed, or fail, bit by bit, in contentious meetings in small rural townships across the midwest and heartland, where clean energy projects are sited, or not, thru the ordinances passed by earnest but often overwhelmed township boards and planning commissions, who must contend with opposition that are a minority, but very loud, shrill, and often deliberately intimidating.
The meetings get a little animated, as this unusually vivid narration of a recent meeting from the Greenville, Michigan, Daily News.