Santa Fe YIMBYs are fighting to save a solar farm

For months, Dan Baker has been glued to his neighborhood’s Nextdoor feed in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Baker, a longtime solar consultant, looked for one thing as he scrolled: attacks against a planned solar farm and battery storage facility that could help power tens of thousands of homes in the community. The local planning commission signed off on the project in February, but some residents immediately mobilized to try to stop it, filing an appeal. “We have a really odd situation here...