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Seeing which way the wind blows Woman wants to install turbine on her Federal Hill rowhouse roof

Aug 4th, 2009 | permalink: Seeing which way the wind blows Woman wants to install turbine on her Federal Hill rowhouse roof | Category: World News

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Looking to offset rising electricity bills, Marsha Vitow has a modern solution: installing Baltimore’s first residential wind turbine on the roof of her Federal Hill rowhouse.

It’s a logical move in a city whose mayor has pushed extra tree plantings, recycling and other issues on a “cleaner, greener” agenda, but Vitow has run into some old-fashioned problems. Decades-old zoning laws don’t account for a wind turbine, and some of her neighbors say the eight-foot-tall contraption will hurt their rooftop views and their property values…read more…

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