Viper43
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Before putting up a tower you need to check your county, city ordinances, even if your a HAM radio operator. I just found out this week that my own county joined a growing list of counties and cities trying to limit antenna towers, this includes towers used for amature radio, TV, scanner,satellite, and CB etc. The whole jist of it another way for local governments to get more $$ out of you. Oddly enough there are no inspections, no construction requirements and so forth, they just don't want you to be over 48 feet! UH??? Yup. wanna go higher.... get a Variance and "prove" you need to go higher.
Here the cost is:
Special Exception $200
Variance: $300 requiered for certain cases where the tower "could" fall onto anothers property or too close to property line etc.
So here it could cost as much as $500 to put up a tower in addition to the other costs of the tower, ground system, cable etc.
It's obvious that the whole deal is simply to get more money for the county and really has nothing to do with safety. If it were a safety issue I would gladly pay $50 or so to have them come out and inspect the footer and so forthbefore and after it's poured, but since there is no such requirement that shows it's just a money grab and if you pay the $$ you'll most likely get the "permit" as long as a neighbor doesn't put up too much of a stink about it. And once you have the permit go ahead and install it..... they don't care if it's safe or not!
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Here the cost is:
Special Exception $200
Variance: $300 requiered for certain cases where the tower "could" fall onto anothers property or too close to property line etc.
So here it could cost as much as $500 to put up a tower in addition to the other costs of the tower, ground system, cable etc.
It's obvious that the whole deal is simply to get more money for the county and really has nothing to do with safety. If it were a safety issue I would gladly pay $50 or so to have them come out and inspect the footer and so forthbefore and after it's poured, but since there is no such requirement that shows it's just a money grab and if you pay the $$ you'll most likely get the "permit" as long as a neighbor doesn't put up too much of a stink about it. And once you have the permit go ahead and install it..... they don't care if it's safe or not!
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