[TowerTalk] New Zoning Regulations

[Mike Mattes]

Tower-talkers:

                  Many thanks for your responses on this issue. I cannot 
tell you how much I have learned from this site over the years-not just 
hardware issues, but also legal matters, public relations,etc.
                  What has surprised me in the responses is that so many of 
you have been parties to or seen local zoning issues where the authorities 
try to make/change the law on the back of an applicant. I had this done to 
me twice in New York on two non-radio matters. I thought it wasn't that 
common, despite many communities being anti-antenna, but apparently it is.
                  Thanks again to all of you for your apparently limitless 
source of knowledge and experience on these matters and your willingness to 
share it in the true ham spirit.

                                                               Mike Mattes  
W2LO

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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Mike Mattes" <rfman45 at hotmail.com>
>To: <towertalk at contesting.com>
>Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2004 9:55 AM
>Subject: [TowerTalk] New Zoning Regulations
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> > I just found out my county is considering establishing a 35 foot
>maximum on
> > new buildings and bringing my area under county zoning. A tower is a
> > building as far as building departments are concerned.
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>Hmmm. Not usually. Here is the Yuma County definition. The Yuma City
>definition is almost identical:
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>"Building. A structure constructed on the premises and having a roof
>supported by columns or walls for housing, shelter or enclosure of
>persons, animals, or property of any kind."
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>A tower IS considered a structure though:
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>"Structure. Anything constructed or erected with fixed location on the
>ground, or attached to something having fixed location on the ground,
>including but not limited to buildings, towers, swimming pools, walls,
>fences, and billboards."
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>Here's my favorite line from the Yuma City Ordinance:
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>"EXCEPTIONS TO (building) HEIGHT LIMITS: The provisions of the section
>shall not apply to church spires, domes, belfries, cupolas, monuments,
>water tank towers, fire towers, observation towers, transmission
>towers, windmills, chimneys, smoke stacks, silos, derricks, conveyers,
>flag poles, and aerials and their necessary supports..."
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>Dave Hachadorian, K6LL
>Yuma, AZ
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