“Every project that includes removing forests (like the high density housing project near the train station) raises the water table, decreases absorption and increases flooding.” “In Cornell Heights and Whitehead Manor, it is ‘death by 1,000 cuts,’” Pone added. A land use attorney argued that solar farms are not permitted in the industrial zone off Sweetbriar Avenue and said the application must therefore go before the township’s Zoning Board of Adjustment, which has the power to grant special permission use variances.įormer Hamilton councilman Dennis Pone, who lives in the Cornell Heights neighborhood, said March 28 is the date the planning board set to make a determination on whether the solar farm application stays with the planning board or gets transferred to the zoning board. Instead of voting on the application’s fate, the planning board ended Thursday’s meeting to consider a novel argument over the next four weeks. The Hamilton Planning Board has held several meetings since December listening to wide-ranging testimony regarding Synnergy’s application, most recently on Thursday, when the board adjourned a marathon meeting without taking any formal action.
Opponents say it would increase the risk of residential flooding, but a company executive says the plan is supported by “sound engineering” guaranteeing “we will not contribute any additional stormwater runoff.” The private company, Synnergy LLC, wants to develop a solar farm near the Cornell Heights and Whitehead Manor neighborhoods. After months of consideration, the Hamilton Township Planning Board still has not approved or denied a developer’s application to uproot hundreds of trees to make way for thousands of ground-mounted solar panels.
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