{"id":1451,"date":"2023-08-19T08:01:28","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T12:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pineplainsviews.com\/meetings\/?p=1451"},"modified":"2023-08-19T08:01:51","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T12:01:51","slug":"sunshine-the-new-crop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pineplainsviews.com\/meetings\/2023\/08\/19\/sunshine-the-new-crop\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunshine:  The New Crop?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<p>On January 21, 2023, the Pine Plains, NY, Planning Board held a public hearing for the community on a proposal for a large solar panel project to be constructed in the township. While an official Zoom video will be on the Planning Board&#8217;s YouTube channel, I documented it as a private citizen because I felt it was important to share the experience from the point of view of a community member sitting in the audience. You can watch the full meeting, unedited, here.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5jDT2iQuCPk\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The unedited public comments on the second hearing of March 11, 2023 are below.<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6EijvFY8VkM\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 21, 2023, the Pine Plains, NY, Planning Board held a public hearing for the community on a proposal for a large solar panel project to be constructed in the township. While an official Zoom video will be on the Planning Board&#8217;s YouTube channel, I documented it as a private citizen because I felt &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pineplainsviews.com\/meetings\/2023\/08\/19\/sunshine-the-new-crop\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunshine:  The New Crop?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pineplainsviews.com\/meetings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Mareh-Hearing-COMMENTS-0001-scaled.jpeg?fit=2560%2C1440&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Cv0y-np","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":52,"url":"https:\/\/www.pineplainsviews.com\/meetings\/2012\/09\/20\/town-board-meeting-september-20-2012\/","url_meta":{"origin":1451,"position":0},"title":"Town Board Meeting, September 20, 2012","author":"stan","date":"September 20, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"This meeting, which lasted for over 2 hours, is presented unedited and was filmed with only one camera from a fixed position. \u00a0It may be boring for some, but it is as objective a depiction of a public meeting as I could make it. \u00a0It is the first in a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Town Board Meeting&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Town Board Meeting","link":"https:\/\/www.pineplainsviews.com\/meetings\/category\/town-board-meeting\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1097,"url":"https:\/\/www.pineplainsviews.com\/meetings\/2018\/10\/31\/town-board-budget-public-hearing-october-29-2018\/","url_meta":{"origin":1451,"position":1},"title":"Town Board Budget Public Hearing, October 29, 2018","author":"stan","date":"October 31, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/298056684 To watch in full screen, click the arrow box at the lower right corner of the video. 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