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marlon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck McCown - 3" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 3:26 PM Subject: [WISPA] A glorious victory > 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/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/