Court Opinion

ID: 9689339
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 18:28:27.923352+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:18:47.110884
License: Public Domain

PETERSON, Justice
(concurring in part; dissenting in part).
I concur in the opinion of the court in all respects except its affirmance of the denial of a building permit for the establishment of a tower 45 feet in height, for I believe this is clearly authorized by section 407.-16(6) of the zoning ordinance. That section places a height limitation of 45 feet on “transmission towers of commercial and private radio broadcasting stations, [and] television antennae.” Section 604 requires the issuance of a special-use permit only if towers over 45 feet in height are to be constructed in an agricultural district. Read together, these two sections of the ordinance imply that towers less than 45 feet are permitted uses in an agricultural dis*767trict. To conclude otherwise results in an absurd situation where towers of 45 feet are specially permitted uses, but towers less than 45 feet are not permitted at all. (As the majority opinion notes, all uses permitted in the agricultural use district are permitted in the conservancy district as well.) I would accordingly order the issuance of a building permit for a tower of that height pursuant to Hubbard’s amended application.