To the editor:

How do solar arrays recently emerging in Portsmouth adhere to the Comprehensive Plan to provide “an orderly, balanced, and rational development pattern” of land use to “preserve community character, enhance fiscal stability and protect the quality of the natural environment?” 

Check out the new solar array on West Main Road. If the previously bucolic 18 acres at the Melville site now covered with an ugly glass and metal conglomeration does not strike fear in you regarding our town’s future, maybe this will: a new solar ordinance passed that gives developers extensive rights. 

Granted, we have no control over the Navy’s development. However, rumor has it, other solar farms will come soon. Is this the best we can do? I think not. Portsmouth residents need to step up, speak out, and hold public officials accountable when it comes to the “green” energy invasion. Our town’s beauty and charm are worth fighting to preserve.

Sincerely,

Robyn Younkin

49 West Passage Drive

Portsmouth

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