{"id":4409,"date":"2011-06-27T05:26:05","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T09:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4409"},"modified":"2011-08-09T15:14:22","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T19:14:22","slug":"morning-read-wind-farm-impact-on-property-values-debated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/06\/27\/morning-read-wind-farm-impact-on-property-values-debated\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read: Wind farm impact on property values debated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20110627\/NEWS03\/306279998\/-1\/NEWS\"> Watertown Daily Times<\/a> is reporting that a Chicago-based appraiser finds that a new wind farm planned near Cape Vincent could cause some homeowners to see their property values drop by as much as forty percent.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;After completing my review of the subject location, it is clear that  numerous homes in the Cape Vincent area will be adversely impacted, and  the best available evidence indicates that value loss of 25 to 40  percent or more will occur to homes within approximately two miles of  the turbines,&#8221; principal Michael S. McCann wrote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This study is the latest salvo in the long-running debate over the economic and environmental impacts of wind farms in the North Country.\u00a0 Wind advocates told the Times they were skeptical about the findings.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The studies that we have seen have reported pretty much across the  board insignificant property value decrease,&#8221; said Dawn M. Munk, a Three  Mile Bay member of Voters for Wind. &#8220;And in those cases where there was  a decrease in property value, it was usually before the installation of  the wind farm or immediately thereafter. Then, property values went  back up very quickly.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20110627\/NEWS03\/306279998\/-1\/NEWS\">Read the full article here<\/a>.\u00a0 Comments welcome below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Watertown Daily Times is reporting that a Chicago-based appraiser finds that a new wind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[10,883],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4410,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4409\/revisions\/4410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}