I have two towers up at my San Jose home. A 40ft crankup with a 6 element
yagi and a 15ft ground mounted tower with a 144/440 Vertical on it. I put
them up 15 years ago after my first visit to the City of San Jose. At that
time, they said a permit is required, they don't issue them and I did like
everyone else does, I simply put them up. I have been very fortunate in that
I have had them up for 15 years w/o any complaints. In addition, I have
outlasted all of the original neighbors. Each and every neighbor has moved
into their home since the towers were up. Last Friday, San Jose planning
dept told me the same thing. A tower permit is required. They don't issue
them. They said they are the least of my worries. HOA's and Noisy neighbors
usually kill any tower project in the early stages. I am hoping to replace
my 40ft tower with a tower at 55ft and a slightly larger Yagi. San Jose has
yet to define an official tower permit policy. They are short staffed and
focus on larger revenue generating projects such as malls and tract
developments. I am going to move forward and "do what everyone else does"
Thank you all for your varied and passionate input.
Paul N6PSE
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From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lux
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 11:04 AM
To: Kelly Johnson; towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Installing a New Tower - Trylon Titan T200-96'
At 08:45 AM 6/28/2005, Kelly Johnson wrote:
>San Jose is like most cities...the building department won't cite you
>for an infraction unless someone complains. If you put one up w/o a
>permit, then you run the risk that a neighbor WILL complain. At that
>point, the building inspector has no option but to cite you and tell
>you to take it down. If nobody complains, you're fine, but these days
>your chances of avoiding a neighbors complaint seem slim.
I heartily concur. I had 4 freshly assembled 6BTV verticals just leaning
up against the kid's playhouse in the back yard, not even installed, and it
was less than a week before the "Notice of Violation" showed up in my
mailbox. The shiny aluminum attracted attention, and also triggered a
careful examination of whether the playhouse met the setback requirements.
By the way, it's not your neighbors who are necessarily the problem. In our
area, most of these sorts of complaints come from real estate agents who
are concerned about the neighborhood appearance for the houses down the
street they are trying to sell. The complaint process is anonymous (or,
more to the point, the complained against person can't find out who
complained without going to court and finding out during the discovery
process), so there's no repercussions for spurious complaining (although
I'll give the code enforcement folks credit.. they do a fair amount of
filtering).
>Anyone out there know how change the laws of physics so that an HF
>yagi on a 12 foot pole works well :-)
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