[TowerTalk] Moving to AZ

[Jim Lux]

At 03:34 PM 2/2/2005, bob wrote:
>Will soon be moving to Chandler/Phoenix area. Any info on tower 
>restrictions? Most properties seem to be either small urban lots, or 
>'horse properties' (whatever they are).


"Horse properties" are places where you can have a horse in your back 
yard.  Typically a combination of zoning and adequate space. You'll see 
numbers like 2 horses per 1/2 acre or some such.  In general, horse people 
tend to be pretty tolerant of "odd things" in the neighbor's yard (you 
don't complain about my manure pile, and I don't complain about your 
tower).  There are some new, very up-scale horsey tracts being built with 
bridle paths among the manicured common areas, where this probably doesn't 
apply.  (I'll bet that after a few years, either the tract turns into a 
normal horsey area, or the non-horse-owning homeowners in the tract, who 
thought it looked "cool", go on the warpath to ban the horses...)

When contemplating the desirability of a backyard horse consider this:  1 
horse = 8 tons of manure/yr.   That's about 45 pounds a day which someone 
will need to move from one place to another. Each and every day. (Unless 
you have >5 acres, in which case pasture is a possibility, along with a 
tractor).


>Info? Thanks all
>
>Bob/WF3H