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Planning and Zoning Commission recommends rezoning 108 West Park Street to allow wireless tower amid neighborhood health and school concerns
Summary
The Brandon Planning and Zoning Commission voted to recommend rezoning 108 West Park Street to permit a wireless telecommunications tower, after a presentation by Elevated Towers and public comments expressing concern about the site's proximity to neighborhood homes and two schools.
The Brandon Planning and Zoning Commission voted to recommend the rezoning of 108 West Park Street to general business to allow construction of a wireless telecommunications tower, following a presentation from Elevated Towers and several hours of public comment. The recommendation will go to city council for a first-reading public hearing Monday.
Craig Snyder, a representative of Elevated Towers, told the commission the Alliance-owned parcel just west of Park and Sioux is the best available site to improve south-side cellular coverage. "We think this is probably the best site, to cover cell coverage in the South Side of town," Snyder said, describing multiple alternate sites rejected for zoning, landowner unwillingness or…
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