“I was unable to attend the Dec. 11, 2019 Guilderland Planning Board meeting, but recently reviewed the tape of the meeting on the Guilderland website. The topic of my interest was the presentation by Helios Solar on the installation of a large solar field on property owned by Joseph Muia, former Altamont village attorney, next to the Orchard Creek Golf course.
The proposed solar field is smack in the middle of the most iconic viewshed of the rural Guilderland countryside and the Helderberg escarpment.
I encourage you to watch the meeting on the Live Stream Service on the Guilderland website. It’s in the “Minutes & Agendas” section. Find “Planning Board” and click on the date (Dec. 11, 2019).
What I took away from watching the long and sometimes contentious meeting was that the decisions and views taken by the planning board were flawed, did not fully adhere to the laws that should have guided the board members, and applied codes that were developed without adequate consideration of the town’s own policy documents.”
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Gaughan, James. Altamont Enterprise Letter to the Editor 29 Janaury 2020.