[TowerTalk] Tower lawsuit

[Jim Lux]

On 2/4/12 7:23 AM, Ken wrote:

> Trees are different than something YOU erect.   If I were your neighbor and your tower fell on my property and caused damage, I certainly would expect YOU to pay for the damage.   Why should **I** pay for **your** failure?
>
> And, as has already been noted, if you have a defective tree and do not take care of it, you can be sued if it causes damage.
>


we also have millenia of experience with trees of all shapes and sizes 
in all sorts of extreme weather conditions, so there's a fairly well 
understood basis for estimating "what's reasonable to expect".

Towers have only been around a short time, there's fewer of them than 
trees, etc.   So your local regulators don't have as much to go on from 
a historical experience standpoint, so they rely on engineering 
analysis, usually provided by the person asking for permission.