When radio and TV towers are erected they must own all the land around it so if they fall they don’t fall off the site.
So a 600 foot tower must have a parcel that is 1200 feet square at a minimum.
Why don’t they use these same regulations on high rises ???
58 stories is about 600 feet high. That’s area is about 16 city blocks.
They don’t use those regulations for high-rise buildings because buildings don’t topple over like a radio or TV antenna might. If a tall building collapses, almost every piece of it falls straight down. See the collapse of the WTC buildings on 9/11, for example. Other than dust that can get carried by the wind, notice how little debris there was outside a small radius at Ground Zero.
Not in Needham MA: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Needham,+MA/@42.3033149,-71.2180111,18z (click on satellite view)
TALL TREE LIABILITY
Your neighbor has a tall tree uprooting your driveway. You cut the roots on your property to halt the uprooting. The tree now falls on your neighbor’s car or house.
Who is liable??
“When radio and TV towers are erected they must own all the land around it so if they fall they don’t fall off the site”
I guess towers have end-to-end strength which buildings don’t and in some cases uneven or broken guy wires would exert lateral force?