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Board approves 160-foot Verizon tower; requires preservation of nearby buffer
Summary
The Mobile City Board of Adjustment approved a special exception and related variances to allow a 160-foot Verizon monopole tower at 24100 Du Bois Street, citing a Verizon propagation study; the board attached a condition requiring preservation of existing vegetation buffer to shield nearby residences.
The Mobile City Board of Adjustment voted to approve a special exception and multiple variances to allow construction of a 160-foot monopole cellular tower at 24100 Du Bois Street.
The applicant, Patton Hahn, said Verizon engineers modeled coverage and concluded the tower is needed to densify the carrier’s network in the area. Hahn told the board opponents had earlier argued equipment could be colocated on nearby towers owned by SBA Towers or Crown Castle, but Verizon’s propagation analysis showed colocation on those structures would not provide equivalent coverage…
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