Former SB Member Flynn In Favor Of CCC 3000 Foot Wind Turbine Setbacks

Former Select Board Member Mary Pat Flynn in 2011 voted in favor of setback of 10 times the diameter of the turbine blades or near 3000 feet for Falmouth wind turbines.

Royden Richardson, Barnstable’s representative and chairman of the CCC, and Mary L. (Pat) Flynn of Falmouth, the representative from the Barnstable County Board of County Commissioners, voted in favor of the regulations.

CCC means Cape Cod Commission

The article is here :

http://buzzardsbay.org/newspapers/ccc-approves-turbine-regulations-feb2011.pdf

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“The purpose of the Falmouth Wind Turbine Option Analysis Process (WTOP) is to engage in an open, transparent, and collaborative exploration of the range of options for the long-term future of the Town’s two Wind Turbines – Wind I and Wind II.”

A. Conclusion: WTOP Final Report to Board of Selectmen January 18, 2013

If the Turbines remain in operation, it is likely that the property value issue will then begin in earnest and may only be resolved in court.

If the Selectmen buy-out homes of health affected neighbors, the larger area encompassing 200+/- properties will become a toxic neighborhood, which may be the negative tipping point for their property values and fuel fair compensation?

The arithmetic will not be tricky to prove by then and the conflict will hurt the town’s finances and image for decades.

This is just the beginning of calculating the total costs for the Wind Farm

B. Mary Pat Flynn, ( pictured above ) chairman of the Board of Selectmen, comment : Cape Cod Times March 17, 2015: “All of our decisions have been to support continuing operations of the wind turbine.”

Article: Falmouth to pursue wind turbine appeal March 17, 2015

C. Barnstable Superior Court Judge Cornelius Moriarty issued the order to shut down Falmouth's Wind 1 and Wind 2 on June 20, 2017