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By MICHELE MAl Kappahanmn'k News Staff Writer
When does a structure become a building? When it’s bigger than a breadbox? When it has a basement? When it takes a jack-hammer to tear it apart?
Such questions plagued members of the Board of Zoning appeals Friday as they struggled to apply the zoning code to various telephone company terminals.
C&P Telephone company sought a special use permit to place an apparatus cabinet for electronic equipment on their right-of-way across the Alton Bailey property at Routes 645 and 637.
Earl Davis from C&P described the new style community service cabinet as necessary to keep up with orders for new connections in the area. The new cabinet is more compact than the old system. Designed to resemble a signboard, the cabinet is 61/- feet wide, o1/- feet high, and 27 inches deep, but contains as many connections as five old-fashioned devices, he said.
Yet the cabinet is installed on a slab of concrete on the ground rather than attached to telephone poles. And so arose the discussion of whether the cabinet was a “structure” or a “building”. If it were a building under the zoning ordinance, then C&P would need a 35 foot set-back from the side property line, which Davis said
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