RE: WKOX from the WUNR site

["Paul Hopfgarten" <hopfgapr@sprynet.com>]

Hey, I'm an ex-Zoning Board guy!
<g>

No question, when it comes to local government, NIMBY is KING!

We've had over 2 years of back-and-forth flack about cell towers in my town.
People LOVE their cell phones, they just don't want the cell tower newr
their house.

-Paul Hopfgarten
Zoning Board 1993-96
Town Council 1996-Present
in Derry NH


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> [mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org]On Behalf Of Rob
> Landry
> Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2000 6:48 PM
> To: Martin J. Waters
> Cc: Dan Strassberg; Boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> Subject: Re: WKOX from the WUNR site
>
>
>
> On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, Martin J. Waters wrote:
>
> >         This is sort of a rhetorical question, but, why would a local
> > government have a problem with replacing existing towers with
> shorter ones?
>
> Many people dislike towers. Opposition to such a project as you describe
> might be fueled by knowledge that the broadcasters aren't proposing it to
> beautify the neighborhood but with other, more sinister seeming
> objectives in mind such as flooding it with "microwaves".
>
> Zoning boards do not always behave rationally.
>
> > Hell, AM stations ought to get tax rebates for preserving open space.
>
> Not just AM's. There is a nice parcel of woodland in Needham teeming with
> pheasants, deer, and other wild creatures that would be all condos today
> were it not for WBZ-TV.
>
> >         Everytime this comes up I think of how, IMO, it's bad
> public policy
> > to have the federal law limiting local officials' ability to block cell
> > phone towers but nothing similar for broadcasting.
>
> What is this federal law? It's news to me.
>
>
> Rob Landry
> umar@nerodia.wcrb.com
>