Promoting Best Practices in Local Siting Approval Processes
Focusing on the land-constrained Northeast region, and proposing several recommendations for balancing local and state-wide siting authorities and identifying new sites.
Promoting Best Practices in Local Siting Approval Processes
Includes chapters on best practices in utilizing Special Use Permits and site plan regulations, solar in agricultural districts, and solar land leases.
Promoting Best Practices in Local Siting Approval Processes
Details recommendations for reforming the SEQRA process, land use and planning, agriculture, environmental justice, and transmission and interconnection.
State law makes it easier for wind project proponents to get variances from local zoning ordinances by nominating wind generation as an “inherently beneficial use.”