Just got back from a county commission meeting. We appealed conditions placed on a conditional use permit for a new tower. They wanted us to provide a full acre of fall protection clearance around the tower (leased land). That acre would be conveyed to the county. They wanted the parcel fenced, and landscaped. And the provision that no other development could ever be done there.
This was for a 100 foot lattice tower in the middle of a cow pasture. I argued equal protection, I showed were they have never made us do this any other location. I told them I wanted the cows to graze under the tower. We argued telecom act and the inapplicability of the ordinance cited. I told them that they should require the local power company to have a clear fall zone around every power pole. The commissioners struck all the conditions. The planning guy was trying at the end to insert elements from the contract between us and the rancher. I objected to anything from that contract being read into the record for that proceeding. They shut him down on that too. The planner is a new guy, just graduated from college in May as a planner or some such thing. Our CUP was one of the first things he did. I tried to reason with him early in the process but he had to strut his stuff. So his stuff got rolled into a very tight tube and forcefully hammered into an orfice. I think I will go out on the back porch and crow a little. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
