| Zoning Questions - You Have a Right to a Dish! |
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The FCC has mandated that NO LANDLORD, CONDO, CITY, STATE or any other organization or government agency can disallow anyone with DEEDED SPACE or a BALCONY (in the case of an apartment) that faces a satellite, the right to put up a satellite dish under 1 meter (1.5 meters in Alaska). They CANNOT require a permit, advance notification, the payment of any fee or force the owner or tenant to move the dish (or antenna) if they don't like the way it makes the property look. As long as the space is DEEDED to an owner or on a balcony in the event of a renter -
THERE ARE NO EXCEPTIONS
to this.
Additionally, the Commission's rulings have concluded that NO GOVERNMENT or BOARD or BUILDING can require any special wind loading requirements for satellite dishes. Neither can they require that they are installed by "licensed electrical contractors" or only by installers who are members of a union. For more information see the links at: http://www.fcc.gov/mb/facts/otard.html and at http://www.fcc.gov/csb/shva/ . The link at http://www.sbca.com/government/zoning.htm also contains the FCC decisions on ZONINGS which have also EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED anyone from interfering with, mandating inspections, payment of fees to install, prior submission of plans, or any other zoning rules or regulations against SATELLITE DISHES or BROADCAST ANTENNAS. The Commission's rulings overrule even restricted covenant deeds!
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