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Planning commission advances draft wireless-communications zoning and schedules special meeting to refine setbacks and standards
Summary
Commissioners reviewed a draft ordinance to regulate communication equipment and wireless facilities, debated definitions, setbacks (double tower height vs fixed 1,500–3,000 feet), exceptions for "significant gap" coverage, and agreed to a special meeting on Feb. 23 to review sample codes and finalize recommendations to the assembly.
The Petersburg Borough Planning and Zoning Commission spent more than an hour reviewing a draft zoning ordinance intended to update the borough code for communication equipment, commercial wireless facilities and broadband. Commissioner Heather O'Neil read and explained sections that would add definitions, set application requirements, require photographic simulations, limit lighting and signage, and mandate…
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