"We are still trying to hammer out guidelines that are respectful of the regulations but still give homeowners some guidance." "These new regulations have made the whole subject so confusing," said Krueger, a covenants administrator. In Reston, where covenants are king, Marjorie Krueger is attempting to cope.
property manager who oversees condominiums and town houses. "They spring up like little ugly things everywhere," said Joel Truitt, a D.C. The invasion of small-dish satellites systems across the region worries the aesthetics patrol. The law already has opened up a vast market for dish installers, such as Buddy Davis, who are eagerly touting the new technology to sports fans and others who want digital pictures on hundreds of channels without having to spend thousands of dollars on a big dish. The effect of the new law on high-rise and condominium dwellers is less clear, pending federal action expected later this year.
SUBURBIA GAME HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION TV
They ordered him to take down his dish.īut before he did anything, the federal government rode to the rescue of those wanting high-tech TV reception, overruling homeowners associations that try to ban small satellite dishes or television antennas. It took a few months, but eventually Sickmen was hauled before his association's board of directors. In carefully landscaped suburbia, satellite dishes, outdoor antennas and their ilk traditionally have been viewed as an unaesthetic plague, about as welcome as purple shutters and front-lawn flamingos. "So small," he said, "I figured nobody would ever notice." His was a compact unit, not one of those six-footers that looks capable of contacting extraterrestrials. Unable to get cable television in his Fairfax Station neighborhood, Sickmen clandestinely installed an 18-inch satellite dish on his roof about a year ago, hoping to escape notice by the architectural police of the homeowners association.
Ken Sickmen's satellite dish is finally legit. By Maryann Haggerty Anna Borgman January 18, 1997
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