On 2/4/12 7:23 AM, Ken wrote:
> Trees are different than something YOU erect. If I were your neighbor and
> your tower fell on my property and caused damage, I certainly would expect
> YOU to pay for the damage. Why should **I** pay for **your** failure?
>
> And, as has already been noted, if you have a defective tree and do not take
> care of it, you can be sued if it causes damage.
>
we also have millenia of experience with trees of all shapes and sizes
in all sorts of extreme weather conditions, so there's a fairly well
understood basis for estimating "what's reasonable to expect".
Towers have only been around a short time, there's fewer of them than
trees, etc. So your local regulators don't have as much to go on from
a historical experience standpoint, so they rely on engineering
analysis, usually provided by the person asking for permission.
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