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Community Solar Projects At 2150 Dryden Road Photo: o: Solar lar Array ay at Ledyar dyard, , NY

Community Solar • Affordable solar for everyone • Locally-generated energy • Solar for • Renters • Households without right roof or land • Households without financial resources to buy panels • Cheaper, cleaner power than NYSEG • Landowners exercise their right to stable income

Project Benefits • Locally-made clean energy • Energy for 7,500 average NY homes (potentially all households in Dryden) • $232,000 in prop. Taxes (year 1) + 2%/year • $8M+ over 30 years (town, schools, & county) • 200+ construction jobs in Central NY + local subcontractors & consultants • Grazing land for 350 sheep

Modifications • No arrays in conservation zone • No arrays in wetlands or floodplains • 15’ wide wildlife corridors • 130’ - 140’ setback from cemetery with 2 rows of vegetative screens

Modifications No arrays in conservation zone No arrays in wetlands, floodplains Two 15’ wide wildlife corridors 140’ of setback w/vegetative screens Double rows 130’ of setback w/vegetative screens Cemetery

View 1 – Before Buffer

View 1 – Initial Planting

View 1 – With Grown Buffer

View 2 – Before Buffer

View 2 – Initial Planting

View 2 – With Grown Buffer

Woven Wire Game Fence

Modifications to Plan (Recap) • Large vegetative screen • • Woven game fence • no barbed wire • razor wire was never proposed • No arrays in conservation area • No solar arrays in wetlands (delineation complete) • >100’ setback in all directions • Two 15’ wide wildlife corridors

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