[TowerTalk] Update to Revocation of Tower Permit
Phil Camera
kb9cry at comcast.net
Mon Jul 19 21:23:53 EDT 2004
I would say that whatever the neighbors wanted to do to screen the tower
on their land would be fine with me.
After a while, no one even "sees" the tower and most lose interest. Let
them do whatever they want and I wouldn't
change a thing on my side. Phil KB9CRY
Todd Coulter wrote:
> I am sure that I will forget something, but I will update my
>situation. I went to the meeting today with my attorney. The meeting
>went unexpectedly well, and lasted about an hour. In the meeting for the
>city was the Asst. City Attorney, a Building Official, and a Zoning
>Official. They started off the meeting by stating that they had no
>intent of trying to revoke or stop the building permit, and they
>couldn't even if they wanted to. They said that they had conflicting
>ordinances in reference to towers as well. They addressed a few of the
>concerns of the neighbors such as RF and such. They showed me some RF
>safety evaluations that the neighbors did, and I showed them how they
>were done incorrectly. The neighbors put together a book that was about
>a inch and a half thick. It included stuff from the FCC web site as well
>as the ARRL website. They City Attorney also said that the city had been
>taken to court and lost to Nextel when they tried to stop Nextel from
>installing a cell tower on the basis of RF health problems, and that
>they didn't plan on going to court again and losing. They basically
>wanted to know if I was open to suggestions about screening the antenna
>from the neighbors view. We told them that I would consider any ideas
>and that I would not commit to anything now. The also told me that they
>couldn't force me into any type of screening at all that I did not want.
>They said that they would contact my neighbors and find out if there is
>anything short of taking down the tower that could be done to rectify
>the problem. They are coming out tomorrow to give me the final
>inspection on the tower. We will see how it all goes. Thanks for all of
>the help.
>
> Todd Coulter
> N4JRZ
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