[Towertalk] Building Permit or Not

[N6ZO@aol.com]

Yea Verily Yea !!

Had a very similar experience at this qth.  I went to the city for a building 
permit.  I was informed that since it was NOT a building I did not require a 
permit but that I should check with zoning.  Zoning said it was Not within 
their purview either. 

 A month later I recieved a call from the same man who had told me  I did not 
require a "building permit" telling me to stop building the tower, that he 
had received a complaint from a neighbor.   I went right to his office, he 
remembered me and when I reminded him that he had earlier said a permit was 
not required and that I had checked with zoning also, he said OK you may 
complete the tower and that the city would give it a "courtesy inspection" 
when it was done.

at that point I said, I would like to obtain a permit so lets call it it a 
tower "building" and issue permit for that. The tower building was signed off 
on by both zoning and building.   They issued it, both signed it and as far 
as I know its the only permit ever issued in Chesapeake Virginia.  

That permit is somewhat faded now but proudly on display in its frame in the 
shack

73

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