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Board approves 120‑foot T‑Mobile monopole at Ballou High School to restore service after vandalism
Summary
The Board approved T‑Mobile’s special‑exception application to install a 120‑foot monopole at Ballou High School to replace decommissioned antennas and restore local coverage; the Office of Planning and ANC 8C supported the proposal and DGS will own the monopole while T‑Mobile will maintain it.
The Board of Zoning Adjustment on June 25 granted a special exception (application No. 21284) allowing T‑Mobile Northeast LLC to install a 120‑foot monopole on the Ballou High School campus at 3401 Fourth Street SE to restore cellular coverage lost when rooftop equipment at a nearby site was vandalized.
Curran Smallwood, representing T‑Mobile, said the existing antennas at 3720 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue SE had been decommissioned after vandalism and the proposed monopole would “continue coverage in the…
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