I figure you have a few options:
  • Carefully explain you are following the NEC minimums, and willing to accept responcabilty for your work, like it sounds like you are. But I see thier point, although it say its OK, the day the 14' moving van pulls in the driveway it's over with...
  • Battle 'bot it out with them.... [Linked Image]
  • Install your own pole to clear the driveway, and swag it down to your service. (You could hang a nice light from it too.)
  • Install at the hieght they request, guy wire/support the best you can, and cross your fingers.
  • Do the same as above, and do this: I did it not long ago, and it worked well. Get a 16' X 3" Steel tube stock - weld brackets to it - bolt it to the framing of the house and support your mast and drop to it. Had conduit go through one roof-jack and massive steel pipe through the other.

Mark Heller
"Well - I oughta....." -Jackie Gleason