Planning commission recommends approval of 199-foot cell tower permit in Dinwiddie County

The Dinwiddie County Planning Commission voted 5-0 to recommend approval of a conditional-use permit for a 199-foot monopole wireless telecommunications tower proposed by Selco Partnership/Verizon Wyler Wireless, advancing the application to the Board of Supervisors with one staff condition removed.

County planner Mark Bassett opened the public hearing, identifying the case as C25-5 and saying, "The case we have before us this evening is C25-five. The applicant is Selco Partnership, Verizon Wyler Wireless. There the applicant's representative is here this evening, Tyler Rosa with Williams Mullen to represent the application." Bassett told commissioners the site is a roughly 7.4-acre parcel in the county's rural conservation land-use category and that the applicant had submitted a site plan and balloon-test imagery to show visibility and setbacks.

The commission's motion recommended approval subject to the site plan and other standard conditions but removed a proposed condition (condition 3) that would have…