My neighbor wants to put up a 150' Cingular cell phone tower - Legal recourse to get it stopped? (Chicago: apartments, how much)

[Lookout Kid]

I don't know if anyone has pointed this out yet, but Cingular doesn't exist anymore. It was absorbed by AT&T years ago. So I really doubt this is going to be a Cingular tower.

[Lookout Kid]

Originally Posted by cuba libre

...and words like collectivism have much less meaning.

Yeah, sure. The city is a bastion of socialism. You just sound ridiculous making comments like that.

[Irishtom29]

Originally Posted by Lookout Kid

Yeah, sure. The city is a bastion of socialism. You just sound ridiculous making comments like that.

Especially since he's the guy interfering with the free market. Maybe "Cuba libre" is a closet Castro fan.

[Paxtonian]

I can't wait for the poster to try to make an emergency call IF they get the tower stopped. I'll laugh my ass off if they can't get a signal on their cell phone.

[spanko75]

Originally Posted by cuba libre

I hear from the Planning and Zoning Administrator in Lake County that I have no chance of stopping a cell tower going up in my neighborhood. Actually, on the property (owned by my redneck neighbor) adjacent to my house, less than 250' away from my front doorstep. My redneck neighbor solicited to several cell phone companies his front acreage, and CIngular offered the sleaze ball $1,500/month for the right to maintain a tower on his property. Nobody on our semi-rural residential street was ever notified of any public hearing. I hear that cell phone companies dominate the lobbying scene in Springfield, leaving little hope for residents, or county administrators to put any restrictions on these eye sore landmarks.
ROTFLMAO....I take it ya'll aren't sharing brews every evening.
Does anybody know of any recourse I could take?

at least you'll have good service

[mendelman]

Originally Posted by cuba libre

Alll new subdivisions in my area are immediately annexed into Hawthorn Woods, and HW police are the only ones I ever see around. They rule the roost out here.

Perhaps all new subdivisions are annexed to HW, but that is probably because the developer wants it to be.

You may think HW has some sort of authority, but I doubt there is anything they can really do about it, unless they do some backroom dealing at the County building in Waukegan.

Just because they have extraterritorial jurisdiction does not necessarily mean they have the power to stop this as-of-right development. If this project needed a special/conditional use permit, maybe HW would have more "power", but as-of-right development is really, almost impossible, to spot, without the County instituting a moratorium, which can be politically troublesome at best.

[cuba libre]

Originally Posted by J double R

you DON'T own the property it's going up on, so quit whining and worry about what you DO own. The community is not there for your aesthetic pleasure.

That's a really dumb way of looking at my problem.

Originally Posted by J double R

If it was, you would have paid for every property on the block; in which case, your aesthetic pleasure would matter, because you would have a say.

You are absolutely no help to me whatsoever. Go dig a hole in the ground somewhere.

[Drover]

An even dumber way of looking at your problem is choosing to live in an unincorporated area and then complaining about the logical consequences of living in an unincorporated area. You live by the sword, you die by the sword. If you don't want cell phone towers in your neighbors' back yard, move somewhere where zoning forbids cell phone towers in your neighbors' yards. He gets his cell phone tower, you get a tower-free neighborhood, everyone gets what they want, problem solved.

[cuba libre]

Originally Posted by Drover

An even dumber way of looking at your problem is choosing to live in an unincorporated area and then complaining about the logical consequences of living in an unincorporated area.

Our property has been "in the family" for almost 40 years. I have spent my whole life here. We aren't exactly part of the "new generation" of mini van driving suburbanites who commute to work in Cook County every day. (We are not baahahaaa sheep)

Originally Posted by Drover

If you don't want cell phone towers in your neighbors' back yard, move somewhere where zoning forbids cell phone towers in your neighbors' yards. He gets his cell phone tower, you get a tower-free neighborhood, everyone gets what they want, problem solved.

You think I 'm the only one complaining? Everyone on the whole friggin raod has signs in their front yard, and I'm sure the guy has gotten some nasy letters from my neighbors.

As I said before, I think the issue has been settled. I don't need anymore help from you guys - not that you were any help in the first place.

MOD- Shut this thread down.

[spanko75]

Originally Posted by cuba libre

I hear from the Planning and Zoning Administrator in Lake County that I have no chance of stopping a cell tower going up in my neighborhood. Actually, on the property (owned by my redneck neighbor) adjacent to my house, less than 250' away from my front doorstep. My redneck neighbor solicited to several cell phone companies his front acreage, and CIngular offered the sleaze ball $1,500/month for the right to maintain a tower on his property. Nobody on our semi-rural residential street was ever notified of any public hearing. I hear that cell phone companies dominate the lobbying scene in Springfield, leaving little hope for residents, or county administrators to put any restrictions on these eye sore landmarks.

Does anybody know of any recourse I could take?

Can you not just invite him over for a steak and some beer and ask him not to?