Zoning
A (sometimes mandatory) meeting with the jurisdiction before submitting a zoning application.
What is a Pre-App Meeting?
The estimated building cost of construction for a new tower.
What is $250,000?
This permit is required if the ROW is a State Road or Highway.
What is a DOT Permit?
This document is needed to change a lease agreement that is already in effect.
What is an Amendment?
While they can be as small as 1ft, this is the typical height of a lightning rod used on the top of a tower.
What is 10ft?
This ideal type of zoning typically gives approval without requiring a hearing.
What is Admin Approval?
This tube allows water to pass under an access path along a ditch, and if one is required, it should be mentioned in the SCIP.
What is a culvert?
This company handles the tower construction, and they are sometimes required by the jurisdiction to apply directly for a Building Permit.
Who is the General Contractor?
The number of Square Feet we typically lease is also the number of hours it supposedly takes to master a task.
What is 10,000 Square Feet?
The expected additional height on top of the total tower height needed for a FAA Determination for Temporary Structure (Crane) is roughly the same height as a three-story building.
What is 30ft?
Some jurisdictions require these documents to prove the tower would avoid other structures or parcel lines if it ever were topple over.
What is a Fall Zone Letter?
The preferred fenced compound size for a Monopole tower.
What is 50ft x 50ft?
The maximum amount that can be charged for a Permit before approval is necessary.
What is $500?
This unique document requires signatures from CitySwitch, the Landlord, and the Landlord's Bank is needed if the Title Commitment shows a mortgage on the property.
What is an SNDA?
The depth that CitySwitch will remove a tower foundation in order to restore the land when removing the tower.
What is 3ft?
The person or company who is given permission to submit a zoning application on behalf of the property owner.
What is an Agent?
The typical material used to construct telecommunications towers.
What is galvanized steel?
The date that a permit becomes invalid. It is important to include this date in the EC Checklist for the Building Permit.
What is the Expiration Date?
The document used to verify that a lease is being signed by the actual property owner.
What is the Title Commitment?
The maximum (without special approval) permitted yearly escalation percent in a tower lease.
What is 1.5%?
This is a tactic used when Approval at a Zoning Hearing is not looking likely. This request should be made before the council votes for a Denial.
What is a Deferral?
Two very important layers on Google Earth that are necessary to make sure the tower location is buildable and that it is in a spot that stays high and dry.
What are the Flood Hazard and Wetlands layers?
Before issuing a Building Permit, this document from an insurance company is sometimes required to verify that the General Contractor has active insurance.
What is a Certificate Of Insurance (COI)?
Owners sometimes question this section of the Lease that limits third-party companies from buying the rights to the lease or becoming the new landlord by selling an easement.
What is the Right of First Refusal?
This number explains the direction that the carrier's equipment and antennas will face when installed on the tower. On the Colo CDs or RFDS this trio of numbers will be a different for each sector or group of antennas.
What is the Azimuth?