Libertyville Anti-Wind Group Headed Back to Court

An anti-wind group opposed to the Aldridge Electric turbine in Libertyville is headed back to court next week to respond to a motion to dismiss charges against the village. According to a story in the Lake County News Sun:

Residents are scheduled to have their day in court April 6 to respond to the village's motion to dismiss improper zoning charges by permitting an industrial wind turbine to operate next to a residential neighborhood.

Neighbors along Rockland Road near Aldridge Electric Co. have complained the company's turbine is a public nuisance because of its constant noise.

Last year, after the neighbors complained the turbine disturbed their sleep, Lake County Circuit Court Judge Mitchell Hoffman ruled Aldridge's 140-foot turbine could run only from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday through Friday. [...]

"Our position with the village has always been that they passed a special-use permit without doing proper research on several levels," Gates said. "The village then allowed Aldridge to move the turbine closer to us, within 250 feet of nearby residences after passing the ordinance, and after assuring us in the public hearing of the supposed location."

The opposition group was represented in previous filings by attorney Rich Porter, whose law practice increasingly involves suing wind farm developers (Though the article above does not mention Porter). The group maintains a website with a host of hysterical anti-wind propaganda at: www.windturbinenoises.org.

The Lake County Zoning Board of Appeals is now working on a new wind zoning ordinance, and plans to hold a hearing on the proposed ordinance soon.