Is Our Children Learning?

Or...is democracy always a good thing?

The Woodland Town Council rejected a proposal to rezone a section of land north of town to M2 (manufacturing) from RA (residential/agricultural), essentially denying approval of a solar farm.

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During the public comment period preceding the rezoning vote, citizens expressed distrust and fear of the solar panels.

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Jane Mann said she is a local native and is concerned about the natural vegetation that makes the community beautiful.

She is a retired Northampton science teacher and is concerned that photosynthesis, which depends upon sunlight, would not happen and would keep the vegetation from growing. She said she has observed areas near solar panels where vegetation is brown and dead because it did not receive enough sunlight.

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Bobby Mann said he watched communities dry up when I-95 came along and warned that would happen to Woodland because of the solar farms.

“You’re killing your town,” he said. “All the young people are going to move out.”

He said the solar farms would suck up all the energy from the sun and businesses would not come to Woodland.

   Roanoke-Chowan News Herald

I was laughing at poor Mr. Mann's assertion that the solar panels would suck up all the energy from the sun, but if the local science teacher thinks they will prevent photosynthesis by the vegetation in the area, I guess it's kind of unfair to pick on him.