By Darius Udrys for Fox47 News

All across our state farmland like what you see behind me here in Hillsdale County is being prepped for industrial-scale solar and wind farms — see the trees being cut down. How much of a say neighbors have over such projects has been curtailed…and this has many hoping to put that question to voters in November.

Ashley Risher's home in Litchfield is surrounded by fields where a large solar energy farm is planned.

She spent months working with her township on an ordinance that would put, as she sees it, locally-specific protections in place.

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