History of Lookout Mountain Antenna Tower Land

Continuing Litigation

• July 27, 1999: Zoning Administrator Timothy Carl grants permission for KRMA-Channel 6 to “exchange”
  a “same use” microwave dish (no longer in use) for a new dish to receive digital signals from the
  station’s Denver rooftop and send them to the Republic Plaza downtown. Regulations for nonconforming
  use of residential-zoned lots do not allow any change in use and devices no longer is use are to be
  removed within six months.

• November 19, 1999: CARE files a complaint with Jefferson County requesting removal of the KUSA-TV
  channel 9 weather radar ball and tower which was never permitted by the county. The device sends
  1.55 billion watts every 63 seconds. JeffCo agrees to allowing the tower to remain until the LCG
  Supertower is decided. The radar ball is removed.
• November 23, 1999: CARE files letter requesting denial of Tribune KWGN-Channel 2 request to add a
  digital transmitter east of Buffalo Bill’s Grave. This leads to litigation by CARE against JeffCo Zoning
  Administrator Tim Carl’s approval of mounting the digital transmitter on a tower lowered to below 200
  feet. The litigation continues in 2006.
• December 14, 1999: JeffCo grants permission to KCFR and KUVO FM stations operating antennas on
  the Channel 6 tower to place a fence around the facility declaring it dangerous. The stations claim they
  have no alternative beyond polluting the Boettcher Mansion and Lookout Mountain Nature Center. The
  stations have not requested changing signals or facilities with the FCC, which usually responds to
  broadcaster needs. The FM antennas on this tower continue to pollute the area in 2006.
• February, 2000: Lawsuits pending are: 1) CARE vs. JeffCo (FOX-31 expansion), 2) Bear Creek
  Development vs. JeffCo for the Mt. Morrison decision; 3) Lake Cedar Group vs. JeffCo for the Lookout
  Mountain decision; 4) CARE vs. FCC on the 1998 petition to stop licensing antennas for residential areas
• Since 1998, theLake Cedar Group TV stations are “business partners” with the Rocky Mountain
  News and Denver Post. The dailies do not provide objective and educational reporting on this conflict
  beyond brief hearing decisions.
• February 29, 2000: JeffCo Open Space administrator Stanton La Breche provides written permission
  (directed by County Administrator Ron Holliday) for Clear Channel Corporation to fence an enclosure of
  open space land adjacent to the tower east of Buffalo Bill’s Grave. CARE objects but the County
  Commissioners approve.

• April, 2000: CARE petitions the County
  Commissioners to renew the possibility of
  requiring amatorized removal of all towers in the
  Mountain Backdrop that JeffCo taxpayers have
  provided more than $50 million to preserve.
  Citizens recommend rezoning the land for an
  appropriate restaurant-event center to capture
  the extraordinary views planned in 1890 and
  generate taxes.
• April 27, 2000: Colorado Legislature adopts a
  Joint Resolution recommending FCC denial of
  LCG’s petition to preempt local control of land
  use. The National Association of Counties and
  MunicipalLeague, together representing 80%
  of Americans, also recommend denial.
• May 12, 2000: A second demonstration by 100
  citizens at the County building protests against
  FCC preemption. They carried the American flag
  and a large copy of the Constitution of the
  United States of America. Denver media does
  not report it.
• April 4, 2000: Clear Channel gains approval
  of the Open Space Advisory Committee for a
  construction easement on the .6-acre antenna
  tower parcel re-zoned PD in 1982. JeffCo does
  not request an environment assessment of a
  proposed “upgrade.”
• June, 2000: CARE volunteers index 11,000
  pages of FCC records of more than 1,000 RF
  devices operating on residential Lookout
  Mountain. (CARE attorneys Deb Carney and Scott
  Albertson travel to Washington D.C. to meet with
  the FCC in December, 1999. Congressman
  Tancredo confronts the FCC over the threat of
  preempting local zoning control and required the
  FCC to provide the documents.) CARE discovers
  “Buffalo Chips” memorandums of FCC staff to
  assist LCG gain approval of the Supertower.