• Once a solar lease agreement is signed, that owner is no longer a farmer, he is now the owner and his new tenant is an electricity generation plant.• Farmers are workers who produce our food and we have supported them all. The proof. We all face the lack of property taxes that farmers in the area are doing so they can benefit from their property tax exemption.• No one is opposed to a lucrative farm lease, but city taxpayers should not be asked to subsidize a commercial solar installation by allowing a PILOT or other land rebate for homeowners or their tenants. the developer. They must be forced to pay full property taxes on their investment, just like other corporations and property owners.• Allowing a property owner to do what they want with their property is different from a developer who does what they want with the rented property. An industrial energy lease agreement (as well as so-called Good Neighbor agreements) gives the solar or wind developer control of the property and excludes the owner of the land from any right of scrutiny over the developer`s intended use. Together, these leases allow a company, not isolated property owners, to control a very large portion of the land in our cities. Your new small-town neighbor will now be a large business tenant that operates an industrial power plant. If you`re having trouble with your new business neighbor, you should now call a 1-800 claim line that`s elsewhere to talk to someone you don`t know.• Large Scale Solar is an invasive industry that isn`t willing to pay taxes. It condemns our communities to have no permanent reason for more attractive economic development opportunities through the use of liberal setbacks and noise rules that limit ALL other property owners and land use, not developers. Pilot agreements offer developers of large projects substantial property tax relief. A PILOT is the negotiated reduced payment to a city instead of or “instead” of full property tax payments.
If a developer asks to negotiate a PILOT, it`s because they don`t want to pay full property taxes on their investments, like other companies and property owners in a city. To date (September 2020), no commercial wind project has been built in New York State without a PILOT agreement offering the developer considerable property tax relief. . . .
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