[BC] Zoning issues

[Barry Mishkind]

They may not have innate clout, but it seems this is a wide enough 
problem that they ought to be working on it for the members.

At 06:16 AM 9/21/2006, Bailey, Scott wrote
>Barry,
>    If they are, I'm not aware of it. I'm a NAB member, and I don't think
>the NAB, nor our State TAB, have any clout in getting into local issues
>like that. It will take a federal agency and an act of congress to stop
>local governments from telling a federally licensed facility that they
>can not put up a tower, especially in areas where they are needed. Jim
>Zobota (our local zoning guy here knows who the NAB and the TAB are, and
>his office will ignore all calls from them because they have no clout in
>the city and county government, according to him.
>
>Scott
>
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>
>Isn't this something the NAB is working on, to help broadcasters?
>
>At 10:25 AM 9/20/2006, Bailey, Scott wrote
> >    My station in Gallatin, TN, when we got ready to replace my old
>195'
> >wind charger tower, codes came to me and want me to go down to 100'. At
> >the time, my knowledge of unipoles, was not good, and I was still
> >learning about what top loading was.