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Fate panel approves 100‑foot Verizon monopole, adds 30‑foot concrete apron condition
Summary
The Fate Planning and Zoning Commission approved SUP24001 to allow a 96‑foot monopole (100 feet with lightning rod) for Verizon/MD7, adding a requirement for a 30‑foot concrete apron on the access drive; applicant said the tower would deliver Frontline coverage to assist first responders.
The Fate Planning and Zoning Commission approved a specific‑use permit (SUP24001) to allow a 96‑foot monopole telecommunication tower (100 feet including lightning rod) on a platted, roughly 5.3‑acre lot on North Ben Payne Road.
Ryan Wells, director of Planning and Development Services, told the commission that Fate’s Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) requires a specific‑use permit for monopoles in agricultural zones and that the city’s code requires a 3:1 setback from residential zoning and allowance for co‑location of other providers on towers taller than 75 feet. Wells described the proposal as…
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