Southern Michigan has prime farmland. It is also a very bad location for solar electric generation. Still, tons of money recently came into the region offering landowners huge sums on 30 year contracts to install solar arrays. The farmland will never be the same. The solar generation is minimal. I suspect funding came from the inflation reduction act and it is classic throw money at a problem in a way that just won’t work and has serious unintended consequences. The landowners had a right to sign the contracts, but I hope the damage can be stopped by turning off the funding. Pure waste.
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You’ve got to pass laws that prevent farmers from ruining or rezoning ag resources for scams. That’s what all these green initiatives are, short term gold grab scams. You could catch this stuff, after a sale in the rezoning process that wouldn’t necessarily have to terminate or nullify a sale, but could tie up the rezoning approval process indefinitely except for clearly definable strict rezoning laws, categories that are NOT scams, and do not cause environmental harms. A rezoning approval that imposes warranties to the county, and is contingent on public hearings and votes. Some of which you may be already doing in your community.