[TowerTalk] Chicago Tribune news: Ham radio tower has the OKsignal

[Alan NV8A (ex. AB2OS)]

Back in the UK about 50 years ago, when we saw rows of houses pretty 
much all the same design and color (except for different color front 
doors, perhaps), we knew what they were: "council houses" (i.e., public 
rental housing).

In Brisbane, Australia, even the Housing Commission estates (again 
public rental housing) exhibited more variety of design and color than 
most of these new "upscale" subdivisions. And when it came time for them 
to be repainted, I think the tenants had some say in the color.

It beats me why people that can choose where to live opt for these 
look-alike monstrosities.

Alan NV8A
(long-ago VK4AFE)


On 09/24/04 04:10 pm kelly at thejohnsons.ws put fingers to keyboard and 
launched the following message into cyberspace:

> Hams deserve to be protected, not because of their emergency communications, but
> because our neighbors should not be able to tell us what to do with our property
> except for health and safety issues.  They should be allowed to require "reasonable"
> safety standards, but prohibiting towers...no.  If this is allowed, why not allow my
> neighbor to dictate what color paint I can use, what type of architecture I can use,
> what color draperies, etc.  It sounds like a planned development.  There are lots
> of people that willingly move into planned developments with all of their ridiculous
> rules.  Leave the rest to those of us that prefer freedom to neighborhood control!!!
> If my neighbor wants to live in a cookie cutter neighborhood and wants to dictate
> every aspect of his neighbors existence, then there are numerous planned developments
> in which he can do so.  In fact, in this area it's nearly impossible to find
> a home built in the last 30 years that doesn't have an anti-antenna CC&R and/or
> an HOA.  For every "free" neighborhood, there are probably half a dozen
> HOA controlled neighborhoods.  Trust me, people like that have a lot more places
> (and nicer ones in most cases) to choose from.  Leave my neighborhood to 
> those that prefer "personal property rights" to HOA control!!!!