[TowerTalk] Chicago Tribune: Antenna Stirs Static Among Neighbors

[Richard M. Gillingham]

We elected the people who created city planning boards, zoning boards and
all their ilk...

Therefore, we did..  You did..  What?  You (we) were looking the other way??
They caught you (us) by surprise?  There are lots of people out there who
feel they are ordained by God almighty to look out for everybody elses
business.  They're call 'activists', 'special interest groups'.  (Amateur
Radio is a 'special interest group' too)  There are a lot more of them than
there are us.  (huh?)

Hurts here too.

Gil, W1RG
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "N6KJ" <kelly at thejohnsons.ws>
To: <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 12:16 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Chicago Tribune: Antenna Stirs Static Among
Neighbors


> What happened to "Freedom" and "Personal Property Rights"?  Zoning
> boards have gone way overboard.  Where does control end?  I keep hearing
> this word "eyesore" thrown around.  Well, I happen to find tall towers
> quite beautiful.  People pay money to fly to Paris and look at that
> big "eyesore" called the Eiffel Tower.  People pay millions of dollars to
> buy homes in the San Francisco Marina district where they have a view
> of the Golden Gate Bridge out the front door.  I happen to think the color
> of my neighbors house is an "eyesore", but I don't feel it is my right to
> control everything they do.  Who died and left "City Planners" in charge?
>
>
> On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 07:56:32 -0700, Bill Turner wrote:
>
> >
> > On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 21:17:38 -0400, "Jerry Muller" <k0tv at adelphia.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >This guy got off easy. I live in "Live Free or Die" New Hampshire and
had to
> > >spend over $25K in legal fees to protect three towers on six acres that
are
> > >almost invisible. (New Hampshire Supreme Court, Marchand v. Hudson)
> > >
> > >Jerry, K0TV
> >
> > _________________________________________________________
> >
> > Seems to me that you're the one that got off easy.  I can see the
> > justification for one tower being necessary at a height of 75 feet or
> > so, but I understand yours are 90 feet, right?  And three of them?
> >
> > I'm all in favor of ham radio - been licensed for 46 years - but even
> > I might think that's pushing the neighbors a bit.
> >
> > -- 
> > 73, Bill W7TI
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> >
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> and
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