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Supervisors approve Apex Towers monopole after amending planning conditions
Summary
Rockbridge County approved a special exception for a new monopole telecommunications tower near the travel plaza off I-81, agreeing to remove a restriction on antenna standoff and to approve the carrier design as presented.
The Rockbridge County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on Oct. 14 to approve a special-exception application from Apex Tower to construct a new monopole telecommunications tower near the truck-stop/travel-plaza area along I‑81.
Apex representative Dale Hill told the board the site is intended to improve cellular capacity around the travel center and nearby stretches of Interstate 81. “There’s a capacity need. There’s just there’s not enough capacity in that area,” Hill said during the presentation.
The approved project will be a 195-foot monopole with an approximately 4–5-foot lightning rod, for a total height near 199 feet. The tower site design provides a compound with a six-foot chain-link…
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