[TowerTalk] Got a tower/antenna in a CC&R subdivision?

[Jim Lux]

At 04:21 PM 5/14/2007, Tim Heger wrote:
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>From: "Bob Nielsen" <nielsen at oz.net>
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>Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 6:40 PM
>Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Got a tower/antenna in a CC&R subdivision?
>
>
> >
> > On May 14, 2007, at 3:23 PM, Tim Heger wrote:
> >
> >> Why buy a house where your neighbors can have control over what
> >> antennas you
> >> put up?
> >> Someone please explain?  I have never been able to understand why
> >> anyone
> >> would do that.
> >>
> >> 73, Tim - N3XX
> >
> > Wives.
> >
> > 73, Bob N7XY
> >
> >
>I did the house searching, & found the right house with no CC&R's or HOA.
>Wife then looked at the house, liked it, and that's where we have been since
>1991.  Also got the OK in writing from the county for two 100' towers before
>closing the deal.


Of course, you're out in the countryside some 10-15 miles from 
Atlanta there (thank you Google Earth), so it might be easier to do 
than, in say, Ventura County, CA. Your 4 bd/4ba 2700 square foot 
house on what looks like more than an acre would be a multi-million 
dollar property around here. And you still have an assessed value 
substantially in excess of the tract to your west (thank you 
zillow.com). Does that subdivision have CC&Rs?

I'd venture to say that there are very, very few properties similar 
to yours in Southern California (that aren't out in the middle of the 
Mojave Desert)

Take a look at
http://www.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&ll=34.22,-118.82&t=k&z=13&om=1

to see what eastern Ventura County looks like.  Anywhere you see that 
doesn't have houses is most likely legislated open space, too rugged 
to build on, or zoned for agricultural.  I would venture that of the 
populated areas you see, less than 10% is not subject to either CC&Rs 
or onerous local ordinances (PRB-1 notwithstanding)