> -----Original Message----- > Correct, to an extent. My town (Middleburg) leases to most of the > carriers on our two water towers. We prohibit private towers inside > town limits. No one wants the eye sore of private towers here.
It was a unanimous vote? *No one* wants rental income from the carriers? Or was it just the people who bothered to show up for the meeting? A woman came to my house with a petition last year, to block the proposed building of a cell tower in our neighborhood. My neighborhood is a cellular black hole and I wouldn't mind better coverage at all. It would be in the middle of a rather large and tall thicket of trees, on land owned by the community swimming pool (which is always one foot in the financial grave) and abutted by my kids' elementary school. Lots and lots of buffer zone. She had all sorts of Very Scary[tm] reasons, including declining property values, why we shouldn't allow it to be put in. When I asked her how the an adjacent development, which has a nearly identical setup, sans trees to hide in, fared in terms of property values, she started blubbering how it wasn't the same (because, you know, the laws of economics operate differently there) and wouldn't give me a straight answer. I asked her a few more questions about her other dubious claims and it was obvious that she hadn't encountered anyone skeptical of her horror stories yet. She scurried off rather than answer any of them. Turns out, her house will be one of the closer homes, albeit about 300 feet away on the other side of the thicket. Funny that. I find it strange how many of us will tolerate all sorts of technological "eyesores" on our streets: power lines, telephone poles, traffic lights, mailboxes, street lights, lines for phones and cable, satellite dishes, cars, trucks, roads, etc, but lose all rationality when it comes to cell towers. Does the DSM IV have anything on this yet? ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
