Posted on 10/05/2015 10:36:03 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE
Orono, MN For more than a year, we have been following the story of a Minnesota man, Jay Nygard, who is routinely risking jail time because he refuses to remove a wind turbine from his property. Nygard has been in and out of court over the years, and despite a short-lived victory in October, he was recently back in front of a judge facing a contempt of court charge for refusing a court order to remove the turbines from his property.
He did eventually remove the turbines, leaving only the cement bases because removing them would cause structural damage to their house. This was not good enough for the local government, who ignored the advice of three different engineers and demanded that they remove the bases, despite the risk of damaging the home.
Ah yes, the vengeance approach. That fellow could make things REAL miserable for the neighbors in any manner of legal ways.
And the “damage” lasted until when... the wind turbine was removed? What point is there in pushing a technicality except to stir up a real big hornets nest. Sometimes some people never learn when to let go.
Thank goodness AEP is looking out for me.
You answered your own question, at least as it would pertain to neighbors (noise and strobing lights).
What point is there in pushing a technicality...?
The city argues the prohibited "structure" (concrete foundation, anchor bolts, etc.) has not been removed. The city engineers have no doubt pointed out that removal of that added structure poses no danger to the integrity of the earlier existing house. If the guy or his contractor had placed the structure within the sideset due to some good faith error the city might have issued a variance for the foundation. But instead, he has acted throughout as though the city has no authority over the matter. Bad move.
It has been fun, have a nice evening.
So, paint it a non-reflective flat color,
And you know jolly well you have a losing case in the end... that’s why you are going.
Nobody’s bothered any more with the turbine, it is long gone, yet the people are insisting on sticking it to the fellow.
The people are going to get what they earned by doing that, methinks.
That might have meant for sunlight passing through the blades, but at any rate it’s gone and nobody has any quantifiable suffering remaining from it. So should be gone any sensible opposition to the fellow, but again some people just do not know when to stop for their own good.
By the way, sunlight also flickers through trees whose leaves are moved by the wind. Was there any comparison attempted, even for the sake of that transient problem?
If I owned a home on Minnetonka (expensive place on the shore) I would be mad as can be if someone put up a noisemaker. I had neighbors with wind chimes making noise 24/7 when I lived in Golden Valley (about 15 miles from that lake). I hate wind chimes!
Those “most people” do not read the article to fully understand this dude created a nuisance. It’d be like living next to a barking dog.
Perfect place for a couple quad 50 calibre AA gun emplacements... pointing down the driveway.
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