Classic NIMBY rich people problems!
With all the trees in the neighborhood you would never even notice it.
http://newton.wickedlocal.com/news/...io-antenna-tower-causing-static-in-marblehead
With all the trees in the neighborhood you would never even notice it.
http://newton.wickedlocal.com/news/...io-antenna-tower-causing-static-in-marblehead
A group of neighbors banded together over concerns regarding a 40-foot aluminum ham radio operator tower going up in their neighborhood got some good news when the Zoning Board of Appeals voted to revoke the permit.
“It is the best we could have hoped for,” Cathyann Swindlehurst, said referring to the outcome of the Sept. 27 ZBA hearing.
Swindlehurst, a Casino Road resident representing the abutters, told ZBA members she believed vague zoning bylaws and a certain amount of protection under the federal government resulted in the Michael Crestohl receiving a building permit for the tower. She is alarmed however that “the building permit was issued without any restrictions attached.”
Marblehead’s bylaws appear to make only one mention of ham operator antenna’s, Swindlehurst said. Under auxiliary uses, wireless communications antennas it states that antennas used solely and exclusively for ham operation and television are are allowed as a matter of right and are excluded from this section.
Crestohl also noted that town's by-laws "specifically and clearly state that antennas used 'solely and exclusively for ham radio are considered a matter of right' and are excluded from the section of the by-laws dealing with zoning. I operate my station by authority of the F.C.C. and there is federal legislation, PRB1, that requires local authorities to make 'reasonable accommodations' for antennas used exclusively for amateur radio."
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