Floyd County, VA is planning a public hearing on Jan. 31 at 7pm at the High School to review the plan for wind turbines on ridgelines on Wills Ridge.

Source: http://www2.swvatoday.com/ Southwest VA News: The board also heard from wind turbine advocate Frank Rudisill of Indian Valley who spoke in opposition to a proposed ordinance to effectively ban ridgeline development by prohibiting structures that rise more than 40 feet above the tops of ridges. The new board faces a public hearing on the ordinance at 7 p.m. on Jan. 31 at the Floyd County High School auditorium. The wind turbine debate, sparked by proposals for wind generator farms with large turbines that rise up to 490 feet above a ridgeline on Wills Ridge and other areas, has brought dozens of county citizens to recent board meetings to argue for and against the windmills. Rudisill said he has put together a cooperative of landowners with 2700 acres along Alum Ridge for farms and warned the board it would be better to allow development of the generators and enjoy the revenue they bring in than to spend taxpayer money fighting the issue in court.