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Bristol Bay Assembly rejects broad residential cell‑tower ordinance, directs rewrite
Summary
The assembly voted down Ordinance 2025‑21, which would have allowed communication towers in residential zones up to 100 feet with a conditional‑use permit, and directed staff to rewrite the proposed ordinances with more guardrails after members raised concerns about opening residential parcels to towers.
The Bristol Bay Borough Assembly on Dec. 5 discussed two ordinances that would add communication towers as a permissible use in residential and multifamily zones under a conditional‑use permit, with a 100‑foot maximum height.
Planning and zoning director Steve Wilson told the assembly the change was proposed to make more land available for telecommunication infrastructure because the borough’s comprehensive plan (last updated in 2006) does not address telecommunications. "What this does is it does allow…
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