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Council rejects telecom tower conditional-use request; proponents warn AT&T service could be interrupted
Summary
A proposal tied to conditional use permit CUP 24-6 for a telecommunication tower failed on Jan. 13; proponents said AT&T must vacate an existing tank site by July 2025 and sought an alternate site, while council members raised zoning and neighborhood concerns.
A proposal to allow a telecommunication tower and related rezoning failed at the St. Charles County Council meeting Monday, Jan. 13, after the council voted down a substitute ordinance tied to conditional use permit CUP 24-6.
Planning staff said applicants amended their rezoning application from C1 (neighborhood business) to CO (office), which the applicants said would limit future high-intensity commercial uses. Robert Myers, director of the Planning and Zoning Division, told the council the applicants had changed the underlying zoning to make proposed uses "more in keeping with some of the comments that they had heard previously."
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