[TowerTalk] W5GN Antenna Issue - Lost First Round

[Dick Green WC1M]

If your neighbor is cooperative, an easement sounds like just the ticket.
You can probably have it run for 35 years and then expire. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Pair [mailto:daweezil2003 at yahoo.com] 
> Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 6:49 PM
> To: towertalk at contesting.com
> Subject: [TowerTalk] W5GN Antenna Issue - Lost First Round
> 
> First off I'll say that I'm not a lawyer in any state but it 
> occurred to me that you may have stumbled onto the answer to 
> your problem.
> Can you file an easement with the deed to the property you 
> also own for the antenna crossing the property line. It's 
> done all the time for driveways, utilities, and any other 
> thing that a none owner wants to do on a piece of land. In 
> theory you would have to do this even on a piece of wire used 
> in a wire antenna that a neighbor allowed you to tie to their tree!
> They may have a little problem with the post facto easement 
> but it does give them a solution that is politically neutral.
> They might be afraid that if they gave you a variance that 
> there would be a flock of people seeking the same treatment 
> but a easement would only be given if both parties agreed on 
> it, not an official and one party. 
>  
> Anyway I hope you can get a agreeable settlement.
> Good Luck,
>  
> Nick
> wb7pek
> Somewhere out in the boonies of Washington State.
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