As I jog down some streets I occasionally see 2-3 satellite dishes hanging on the front of some Lkwd houses. I wouldn't want to interfere with anyone's right to disable their cable, but these things are really ugly and just look odd on our 80+ year old homes. I'm guessing the installers could mount them in the back or side of houses, or on the chimney, if they had any motivation to do so. You don't see satellite dishes on the front of houses in Rocky River or Westlake. I'm guessing because they've zoned against it. Anyone have any thoughts on why Lakewood has been so lax with these?
(BTW, we have a dish mounted unobtrusively on the back of our house.)
Did a little research and Lkwd Bldg Dept guidelines seem to exempt any dishes less than 3 ft. from any kind of approval process.
http://lkwdpl.org/city/bldg/faq/sateldish.htm
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d drickhamer
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ryan costa
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My high school business law teacher had an interesting anecdote about this.
A guy in Avon lake or Bay village or somewhere along lake erie had a lake front house. The city had some zoning or code against having satellite dishes in front yards: This is so people driving by could see how pretty all the lake front homes were. The homeowner liked hanging out in his backyard, and didn't want to have to look at a big ugly Satellite Dish.
So he put it in his Front Yard and called it his back yard. He successfully argued there was no legal distinction between front and back yards.
That being said, the city really shouldn't be nitpicking satellite dishes. Maybe it would be cool if people painted cool colors and graphics on them.
A guy in Avon lake or Bay village or somewhere along lake erie had a lake front house. The city had some zoning or code against having satellite dishes in front yards: This is so people driving by could see how pretty all the lake front homes were. The homeowner liked hanging out in his backyard, and didn't want to have to look at a big ugly Satellite Dish.
So he put it in his Front Yard and called it his back yard. He successfully argued there was no legal distinction between front and back yards.
That being said, the city really shouldn't be nitpicking satellite dishes. Maybe it would be cool if people painted cool colors and graphics on them.
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dl meckes
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Brian Pedaci
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As someone who shamefully has his dish attached to the front porch, it's solely because there is no clear line-of-sight to the satellite in the back yard because of the trees. I realize that it's an eyesore, but I'll be damned if I'm going back to Cox/Warner/whoever is ripping off the cable market these days.
Maybe I'll be able to remove the dish once the Lightspeed network is done?
Maybe I'll be able to remove the dish once the Lightspeed network is done?