My experience in 52 years....neighbors can be REAL jerks when they don't get
their own way.....then, give them CC&R's tort powers and the courts and God
help us all!!
Was in France last summer....cool place to hang out!
73.../k6sdw
>From: "Al Crespo" <nh7a@arrl.net>
>Reply-To: <nh7a@arrl.net>
>To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
>Subject: [Towertalk] Permits
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
>Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 15:02:25 -0000
>
>Prior to buying a hilltop residence, I contacted the planning department
>of Orinda, California and was informed there was no regulations for
>amateur radio towers. I insisted I wanted a building permit and a sign
>off from the City that the tower was legal. I paid my messily $150.00,
>received a permit to install a HDX 72 tower. It was installed and the
>City signed off on the permit. As soon as I cranked it up, the
>neighbours went nuts. They tried every trick in the book to revoke the
>permit. They even tried to use an a clause in the City's ordinance's
>that said if an official did an unlawful act ( issuing a permit for a
>tower), then the consequences of that act was unlawful and void.
>My tower was in the local newspaper and I was called the "rapist" of
>Orinda because I had destroyed the landscape of the City.
>I had to hired counsel and many City council meetings later, the City
>Attorney finally admitted to the mob and the City Council that the
>permit could not be revoked. It was a very painful and time consuming
>event in my life for me and my wife. If I had not had my permit, the
>tower would have been history and they would have gone as far as charge
>me with a criminal offence for violating the zoning ordinance.
>With all that said, if you put something up without a permit, you too
>can be subject to the same misery I had.
>I now live in France. I got a permit for a 21 meter tower from my
>village of 200 people. Most hams in France do not get permits for their
>towers, but I learned my lesson and got mine. The cost of the permit was
>peanuts and it will stay up forever.
>73, Al, F5VHJ
>
>
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