[K3CAL] Amateur Radio Towers - We Have It Good

[Shawn Donley]

I ran across this in an email reflector.  It's about the travails of a California ham getting the OK to put up a tower.  OBTW...I've seen even worse from other hams in other locations.
 
In comparison, we have it good here in Calvert
 
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"I live in unincorporated San Mateo County between San Francisco and San Jose. We are in a Timber Preserve Zone, where routine timber harvesting is the "highest use of the land". To put up my crank-up tower, I first had to convince the Planner this was not a cell tower. Then verify there were no Marbled Murletts or Red-Legged frogs that might be displaced. (I like to joke that Marbled Murletts go great with Hollandaise Sauce!) The local gopher snakes take care of the frogs. Then had to come up with a mitigation plan for the new water runoff that would be created by my tower's concrete foundation's roughly 100 square feet of impermeable surface. I convinced them the pile of branches from the Doug fir tree I removed (per our Timber Harvesting Plan) would break up the erosive water flow from the foundation runoff. And finally I had to promise the crank-up would be nested whenever I wasn't actually transmitting. Besides dealing with Mother Nature, we also have to deal with the Bureaucracy!"
73,
Steve
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