There are several of these on I80 and Hwy 50 in Northern CA. These silly things cost like $40,000 to sort of look like a tree....
John Tom Sharples wrote: > We spotted several on a recent road-trip around the Sacramento area. Looked > like the world's worst fake Christmas tree from Walmart! > > Tom S. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Eje Gustafsson" <[email protected]> > To: "'WISPA General List'" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 9:04 AM > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Court says cities have the right tobar > telecommunicationstowers > > > >> You can find a lot of fake palm trees in Las Vegas for similar reasons >> that >> if they didn't "hide" the towers then they couldn't put up any more. Drive >> north towards Nellis airforce base on I-15 on the left side along the rail >> road tracks one of the palms is not a real palm. There are plenty others >> around that I seen on different smaller roads. >> >> Cities wants cell phones and good coverage but many starts to be sticklers >> about letting the towers go up to give this coverage. T-mobile and AT&T >> had >> a very long outdrawn "fight" to be able to install the towers they needed >> in >> Pittsburg to get the coverage required. They ended up having to share >> tower >> but even then it was not easy for then. Sister town Frontenac expedited >> their request on the other hand. The differences between cities politics >> and >> building approvals can be very different (one reason we are now located in >> Frontenac instead of Pittsburg because Frontenac bent over backwards to >> make >> us happy and get us going while with both Pittsburg as well the county >> everything we wanted threw up red flags). >> >> / Eje >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of Greg >> Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 10:19 AM >> To: WISPA General List >> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Court says cities have the right to bar >> telecommunicationstowers >> >> The town of Saddle River NJ fought the phone company and they reached an >> agreement - the phone company decorated the tower with fake evergreen >> branches. The tower looks like a big pine tree. If you're ever driving on >> Rt. 17 look at the big pine tree right next to the highway at the Saddle >> River exit. >> >> Greg >> >> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Jeff Broadwick >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >> >>> "After all, travel is often as much about the journey as it is about the >>> destination." >>> >>> WOW?!?! >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >>> Behalf Of Mike Hammett >>> Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 10:48 AM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: [WISPA] Court says cities have the right to bar >>> telecommunicationstowers >>> >>> http://www.benton.org/outgoingframe/29127 >>> >>> >>> ----- >>> Mike Hammett >>> Intelligent Computing Solutions >>> http://www.ics-il.com >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >>> ---- >>> WISPA Wants You! 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