Legal Opinion
Sylvia Pentel v. City of Mendota Heights
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided January 18, 1994No. 93-1026PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWMAN, Circuit Judge.
Pursuant to its zoning ordinance, the City of Mendota Heights, Minnesota, denied Sylvia Pentel, an amateur radio operator, permission to erect a 68-foot radio antenna tower in her yard. Pentel then sued the city, claiming that the zoning ordinance was preempted by a Federal Communications Commission ruling known as PRB-1, which requires the city reasonably to accommodate her amateur communications. The District Court granted summary judgment to the city, and Pentel appeals. Because we conclude that the city did not reasonably accommodate Pentel when it limited her to the…
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