40 foot tall 5G towers appearing around Houston. Whats Up? (Spring: HOA, house)

[Jack Lance]

I doubt that even your HOA can stop this. Is this Corporatism running amuck or the desire for connectivity trumping individual property rights?

It's happening in the Memorial Chase neighborhood in Spring. Neighbors say they don't know what they are, but they want them gone.

"You wake up one morning, and you have a truck driver that wants to deliver a 40-foot pole in your front yard, and it's like, 'that's interesting,'" Don Cochran said with a raised eyebrow.

Since 2017, state law has allowed wireless companies to use any public right-of-ways, even in front of your home.

In most cases, local officials have zero power to keep them from popping up and don't even have to notify anyone that they're coming.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/5g...174972f6f0c7d5

[DabOnEm]

Part of the charm of unincorporated areas. way easier for companies to dump their cell towers there than in incorporated cities which are more likely to have planned areas for things like this.

[SanJac]

Originally Posted by DabOnEm

Part of the charm of unincorporated areas. way easier for companies to dump their cell towers there than in incorporated cities which are more likely to have planned areas for things like this.

Does this have anything to do with unincorporated areas? This happened recently in Lindale Park which is city of Houston.

[DabOnEm]

Originally Posted by SanJac

Does this have anything to do with unincorporated areas? This happened recently in Lindale Park which is city of Houston.

where is that one located? with the one in Memorial Park, you can let it slide because they kind of hid it amongst other things already there. In unincorporated areas, they go up literally next to someone's house along the sidewalk/their fence line and are super obvious (aka tacky). to me it's crazy seeing cell towers placed in the middle of neighborhoods like this but you can't do much about it in unincorporated areas.

[hbcu]

no different than those signs that have been popping up in medians across Houston but they've yet to be turned on and one HOA wasn't even told of an install and even the installers couldn't say where they received directions from

[WRM20]

Those towers are installed on the City right of way, and property owners and HOA's have zero control over them.

[Mescalero]

Are these better or worse than the telephone lines that run right over people's backyards lol

[detachable arm]

These are popping up inside the city of Houston. This is not just an unincorporated thing.

[DabOnEm]

Originally Posted by detachable arm

These are popping up inside the city of Houston. This is not just an unincorporated thing.

Houston has no zoning, and like I said it's where that matters most. like the one in Memorial Park is not egregious. the one in the middle of that unincorporated neighborhood is.

[LocalPlanner]

Originally Posted by DabOnEm

Houston has no zoning, and like I said it's where that matters most. like the one in Memorial Park is not egregious. the one in the middle of that unincorporated neighborhood is.

Having land use zoning would not make one whit of difference on 5G pole placement. Not at all. Do you know anything about zoning? Because the more you post about it, it becomes apparent the less you actually do.