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Stow City planning commission approves 195-foot radio tower at Darrow Road with 25-foot setback variance
Summary
The Stow City Planning Commission approved PC-2025-001 to allow a 195-foot radio tower at 3926 Darrow Road, granting a 25-foot variance from the code-required 100-foot setback from a residential property line; the commission voted unanimously.
The Stow City Planning Commission approved PC-2025-001 to allow construction of a 195-foot radio tower inside the fenced water-tower compound at 3926 Darrow Road, voting unanimously in favor.
The project, presented as a conditional-use site plan and a variance request, was described by Gerald Dolson, a project engineer with Roger Engineers, as necessary to relocate communications equipment from the existing 20-year-old water tower. "We're under an EPA order to paint the tower. It's 20 years old," Dolson said. He told commissioners relocating the equipment will avoid repeated 12-hour daily shutdowns of the Akron 800 radio…
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