Rather than demonizing each other, it’s nice when groups normally on opposite “culture war” sides find common ground and work together. Hoping to facilitate that, I’m calling on local libertarians to join me in supporting economic freedom and opposing unneeded regulations that Yavapai County government enacted last November. It targeted solar developers— and I’m still “simmering.” I’m asking libertarians to join me in telling Yavapai County Supervisors to back off, since—in the words of Autumn Johnson, executive director of the Arizona Solar Energy Industries Association —they are infringing on “free market principles and private property rights.”Tell the (mostly new) supervisors to fix the flawed Solar Facilities Zoning Ordinance their (lame duck) predecessors passed. It severely limits much- needed clean renewable energy development and shuts the door on a revenue stream for the county and private land owners — potentially leaving billions of dollars on the table. They can fix it by establishing what Prescott City Council candidate Jay Ruby has called “solar encouragement zones”— areas where utility-scale solar installations can exist with minimal impact.
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