I live here and they're EVERYWHERE.   My township prides itself on "saved land" (meaning they're not allowing it to be developed) and the area dogs, as well as my own, love that we have our own little dog park behind my house.  Deer roam freely, groundhogs, bunnies, ducks and geese.  It's great that they "save" this land but they also tend to post these HUGE white signs (15' high, 25' wide) with green writing declaring "ANOTHER 88 ACRES SAVED BY MOUNT LAUREL TOWNSHIP."   So much for the pastoral view.  Fortunately, the area we back to doesn't have one but they're everywhere - even for ten saved acres.  Now we have the solar panels on every ^&*(%$ post.  At first it was a few and not that intrusive but now they're everywhere and I have to say "Southern exposure my @$$" because they face every which way. 

Moorestown (adjacent to my town), which was voted last year as one of the best places to live, has solar panels everywhere.  The town itself is beautiful, with historic homes and a community of people who care and hold neighborhood events. 

We boast some of the highest property taxes in the nation and as one resident said, I'm all for alternative energy, but if I owned a home in Moorestown with 20K/yr in property taxes (we're blessed with a measly 15K), I'd be pretty ticked off to have poles with the ugly solar panels fronting my home.  Moorestown is a Main Street type of town, not a development type of town, so they've taken the liberty to install them on every light pole or overhead wire pole.

I'd never considered what Scott mentioned either - that they're not recycleable.  I hadn't the time or inclination to explore why these were spawned but putting them in public transporation areas (train stations) and other less-obvious spots would be a possible option.

Ah, the Garden State...