Hi Steve,
The house I had with the restriction on liquor sales was in L.A. (West
Hills). I figured the guy who sold the land to the developer must have
been a teetotaler. L.A. was pretty antenna friendly. When I was living
with my folks in Santa Monica in the 1950s, the zoning administrator was
a neighbor. I asked him about putting in a tower and he said there were
no rules one way or the other, so go ahead (that probably has changed a
bit).
When I lived in Tucson, AZ it seemed that antenna restrictions were
everywhere (covenents, not city or county requirements). Where I am now
there is no hard limit (WA has a PRB-1 law) and below 60 feet or so, a
permit isn't even required, although I am physically not up to tower
work any more and settled for using a vertical.
Bob, N7XY (ex-W6SWE)
On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 09:59:45AM -0800, Steve Katz wrote:
>
> >
> > ::One problem with buying property having any recorded deed restrictions
> at
> > all, even if the only recorded restriction prohibits pig farming and
> there's
> > no mention of antennas, is that *any* covenants paves the path for
> > additional covenants to be added later, often by nothing more than a
> > majority vote of HOA members. This has happened time and again all over
> the
> > country. In one case locally, the homeowner paid more than $30K in legal
> > fees to fight the HOA for adding more covenants after the fact, and lost
> the
> > case -- and the $30K. Better to not have any. -WB2WIK/6
>
> Actually the house in question had CC&Rs but no HOA. I once looked at a
> house on acreage where the CC&Rs prohibited antennas, but specifically
> said "no restrictions on any livestock". The wording is critical in any
> case. I have no restrictions at my present location (practically the
> only condition I made when my wife started looking at houses).
>
> Bob, N7XY
>
> ::Good deal, Bob. I should have mentioned also: All is not lost for those
> not wishing to move to the boonies or buy acreage in order to amass a
> reasonable ham station antenna farm. You just have to know where to look.
> I've lived in the NYC metro area, the Boston metro area, the Jacksonville
> metro area, and now for the past 17 years in Los Angeles, and having owned
> 15 different homes, I've never had one with restrictive covenants (and never
> will). L.A., specifically, is a very "ham friendly" town. CA has adopted
> PRB-1, signed by ex-governor Davis years ago, and L.A. allows antenna towers
> without conditional use permits for licensed amateurs, all over the city
> (unless there are private deed restrictions). Covenant-free properties
> widely exist and are easily found here, in highly desirable neighborhoods --
> including many where typical lot sizes are small (1/4-ac to 1/3-ac). Many
> very big signals on the HF bands are generated by big towers on these small
> lots. 1/2 mile from me, K6SMF has five large towers with HF monobanders
> (all bands including 3L on 40) on a 1/3-ac lot. I had zero problems
> installing my own tower a month after I moved in, four years ago. It
> doesn't take "acreage," but it does take an intelligent search and knowledge
> of the local market. -WB2WIK/6
>
>
--
Bob Nielsen, N7XY n7xy (at) n7xy.net
Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.n7xy.net
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