{"id":144789764,"date":"2009-08-03T19:22:44","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T19:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=144789764"},"modified":"2009-08-03T19:22:44","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T19:22:44","slug":"federal-hill-resident-seeks-approval-for-wind-turbine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=144789764","title":{"rendered":"Federal Hill resident seeks approval for wind turbine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking to lower her carbon footprint, and offset the rising cost of her BGE bill, Marsha Vitow is endeavoring to become the first Baltimore City resident to install a wind turbine on her roof.<br \/>\nIt may seem like a logical next step in a city whose mayor has pushed a &quot;cleaner, greener&quot; agenda. But as eco-friendly as Baltimore is striving to become with extra tree plantings and recycling pickups, Vitow has run into some old-fashioned problems: decades old zoning laws don&#8217;t account for a wind turbine and some of her Federal Hill neighbors don&#8217;t want to look at it.<br \/>\nThe matter will be decided Tuesday, when Vitow goes before the Board of Municipal and Zoning Appeals for a variance to build above the 35-foot residential height limit. Officials, who routinely approve roof decks, and additions, can&#8217;t say how it will go.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/features\/green\/bal-wind-turbine-0803,0,62245.story?track=rss\">https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/features\/green\/bal-wind-turbine-0803,0,62245.story?track=rss<\/a>oldId.20090803192244203<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking to lower her carbon footprint, and offset the rising cost of her BGE bill, Marsha Vitow is endeavoring to become the first Baltimore City resident to install a wind turbine on her roof. It may seem like a logical next step in a city whose mayor has pushed a &quot;cleaner, greener&quot; agenda. But as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=144789764\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Federal Hill resident seeks approval for wind turbine&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144789764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144789764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144789764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144789764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144789764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144789764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144789764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}