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Supervisors uphold planning commission denial of proposed 199.5-foot tower near private airstrip
Summary
The Harrison County Board of Supervisors denied an appeal from Diamond Communications and Mississippi Power seeking a variance and conditional-use approval for a proposed 199.5-foot tower on a 2.71-acre substation parcel; opponents at the hearing included pilots and the private airstrip owner who said the tower lies directly under the landing and
The Harrison County Board of Supervisors on Wednesday denied an appeal by Diamond Communications and the tower applicant, upholding the Planning Commission's earlier denial of a variance and conditional-use permit for a proposed 199.5-foot communications tower on a Mississippi Power substation property off Mark West Road.
Diamond Communications's senior vice president of site acquisition, who said the company builds towers for utilities and wireless carriers, told the board the location was chosen because the site has existing fiber and a head-end unit that would tie the structure into Mississippi Power's…
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