You can "play" with this situation or just cut to the chase...
call email get in touch with Fred Hopengarten k1vf arrl director, but
more ? author of several Zoning and city conflicts each published by
arrl if you have differences with arrl, get over it.. use Fred.. you
can fiddle fart around trying to save some money or use "the local Guy"
but that's all you're gonna do is fiddle around .. Fred has so damn
much experience and is the consummate professional at this, he visits
with the city attorney on this if the city atty has even half a brain,
fred's logic and experience walks the city smuck thru it all, gives
him/her good sound reasoning and support for them to advise the building
dept or zoning/and or council.. they can all take the advice keep their
integrity and walk away knowing they are meeting the minimum intent of
PRB-1 esp if it has been codified by the Governor/State..
As i mentioned if your objective is to play with it and suffer the angst
frustration and all the other crap that goes along with it, do it the
path your own, you wanna win and be done with it, then call him...
mac/mc w5mc
On 11/3/2020 11:04 AM, jcowens1@comcast.net wrote:
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From: Mike K7PI <bipi@comcast.net>
To: wwdxc@groups.io
Date: 11/03/2020 8:25 AM
Subject: [wwdxc] Antenna Permit Query
Hello All,
The vice chair of our local emergency communications group here on Mercer
Island is Pat Hackett, K7PTH. Pat works closely with our city police, fire, and
local government to ensure we have trained radio operators and procedures that
will effectively provide crucial communications in the event of a major
disaster. While our local communications are VHF/UHF we also depend on HF for
off-island and inter-state communications.
Pat has recently upgraded to a General Class license and John Banbury
(AG7N) and myself have been helping her plan a low profile but effective HF
antenna installation. She has chosen a US Towers ALM31 crank up mast with a 2
element STEPPIR 6-40m yagi. The maximum height of the mast is 31 feet and
lowered it is less than 8 feet. The mast with payload is rated at 65 MPH steady
wind speed with an 85 MPH 3-second gust. Payload is rated at 8 sq-ft and 50 lbs
weight. The 2 ele STEPPIR she plans on using has a wind load rating of 6 sq-ft
and weighs in less than 50 lbs including the chosen rotator.
Pat applied for a Mercer Island building permit to erect the mast providing all of
the design calculations for the mast installations. The city has come back stating that
the mast is an "auxiliary structure" and as such must have maximum height
restriction of 17 feet and design wind speed of 110 MPH. After supplying the city with a
copy of PRB-1 they have relaxed the height requirement but still require the 110 MPH
design wind speed. The lowered mast will be installed on the North side of Pat's house
and will be completely blocked from our SW storm wind direction. Furthermore, if the mast
were to fail for any reason, it would land well within the footprint of her property
boundaries. All utilities are buried so that also is no issue.
So, we are in the process of gathering information to help push this
permit through the city's zoning department. It appears that the city would
like to approve the permit but they need some way of justifying relaxing the
requirements for the category classification of the mast. To that end, Pat is
in the process of reaching out to several lawyers with related
tower/antenna/zoning experience. In addition, I am reaching out to our WWDXC
members who have either obtained a permit or found that no permit was required
for their tower installation and to briefly supply the following information:
1. Your callsign.
2. Your local zoning jurisdiction.
3. Permit required?
4. A brief description of your installation, i.e., height, antennas
5. How the tower/antenna was characterized, i.e., structure, antenna,
other?
6. Design wind speed requirement.
7. Any relaxation of requirements due to site specific considerations.
8. Any links to local zoning requirements related to antenna permitting
(if possible).
9. Any other helpful comments you might have.
Thank you for reading this lengthy email and we appreciate any information
received.
73 de Mike
K7PI
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