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clumping into our scenic rural county.
What's more, they're asking our Board of Zoning Appeals to agree-in other words to disagree with our ordinance! (BZA member Bob Weinberg made this point dramatically at the November meeting.)
The status of companies under the Telecommunications Act of 1996 is a technical legal matter that has not been finally settled by the courts. But that Act gives companies NO right or privilege to undermine, overturn or overrun reasonable ordinances duly adopted by local governments-and recent court decisions have upheld local governments in similar cases.
Is the company really prepared to argue in court that they should be exempt from requirements to set back their towers from property lines, inform the neighbors of their plans, or pay the cost of technical experts the county must hire to adequately evaluate their application? Are these
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