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Falmouth Allows Turbine Tax Abatement
Falmouth Massachusetts Allows Wind Turbine Tax Abatement
Falmouth Massachusetts this week granted a 22 percent reduction in property value to a home on Ridgeview Drive in the Craggy Ridge section of Falmouth. The location is one of almost 200 residential homes around the wind turbines in Falmouth.
The abatement clears the way for other homes to file for tax abatements living near the turbines. An aerial view shows around 200 residential homes. (See file photo attached above)
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Wind turbine victims spent the last four years of their lives trying to warn people about the effects of the wind turbines on their health and taking their constitutional residential property rights with NO compensation ...This was never going to work. It was done for profit at the expense of the health of a minority of residents around the 200 homes.
Many of the minority of residents are afraid to speak out understandably because of fear of retribution. It's easy to understand how difficult local town boards could make life miserable for people who complain against the majority of people in town especially when the wind turbine fiasco is going to cost taxpayers more money.
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Massachusetts local and state politicians have portrayed the wind turbine victims as crackpots and people who just didn't like the view of the 400 foot wind turbines that look like giant tooth brushes sticking out of a toilet upside down. The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center has sided with the Town of Falmouth offering 1.8 million dollars to help the tow with litigation costs while offering NO help to the wind turbine victims.
Massachusetts also conducted noise studies done by individuals appointed by the executive branch of Massachusetts state government. The executive branch has a renewable energy goal of 2000 megawatts of renewable energy by the year 2020 at any cost to the health of wind turbine abutters. The message has been the minority has to give up health and property rights for the majority with NO compensation.
The Mass CEC has produced bogus reports that say the wind turbines do not effect property values. Many insist implications of the RICO Act, Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Act, should be applied to the wind turbine studies and information produced by the state agency over the last ten years.
The past week contrary to Mass. CEC’s claim of no loss of value because of nearby wind turbine placement, a Falmouth home and half acre at Ridgeview Drive in Craggy Ridge was this week granted an abatement of $855 on this year’s property tax by Falmouth’s Board of Assessors.
That is ~$132,000 off of their $589,500 initial assessment.
This is a 22% decline.
In January of 2012 the home was valued at $714,000 for a refinance.
This coupled with the Falmouth ZBA’s 4-0 decision that the turbines are indeed a nuisance with a mitigation order to the Town should begin to convince many local residents of the detriment wind turbines impose on their property value when these TOO CLOSE TOO BIG wind turbines are situated in their back/front yards.
If logical reasoning of health and quality of life issues has not opened your eyes, these numbers should significantly improve your vision.