{"id":444,"date":"2017-12-18T09:08:05","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T14:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/conservation\/?p=444"},"modified":"2017-12-18T09:08:05","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T14:08:05","slug":"cities-balk-at-solar-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/?p=444","title":{"rendered":"Cities Balk At Solar Expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the second time in recent weeks commissioners in two of Polk&#8217;s smaller cities have put the brakes on expansion of solar power within their city limits.\n<\/p>\n<p>The first roadblock occurred in Lake Alfred, where commissioners blocked a landowner&#8217;s attempt to change the growth map to allow solar panels instead of rooftops.\n<\/p>\n<p>Next came action by the Bartow commissioners, which delayed action on another solar farm until they can figure out how or whether to go ahead with it.\n<\/p>\n<p>Both proposals were proposed by Tampa Electric, which has been aggressive in expanding its solar power generating capacity.\n<\/p>\n<p>There was a common thread in both city discussions.\n<\/p>\n<p>There was a claim by some city officials\u2014based on nothing specific\u2014that solar farms would be incompatible with residential development.\n<\/p>\n<p>There was also a practical growth regulation issue, which is that it is prudent to think carefully about how to site any new land use.\n<\/p>\n<p>Bartow officials are scheduled to resume discussions with TECO at another public meeting next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the second time in recent weeks commissioners in two of Polk&#8217;s smaller cities have put the brakes on expansion of solar power within their city limits. The first roadblock occurred in Lake Alfred, where commissioners blocked a landowner&#8217;s attempt to change the growth map to allow solar panels instead of rooftops. Next came action [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gci"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions\/445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}