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Petersburg residents press Title Networks on tower siting, safety and transparency; assembly seeks answers Monday
Summary
Residents at a Petersburg Borough listening session raised health, safety, property-value and legal concerns about proposed Title Networks towers, questioned grant compliance and transparency, and the Planning and Zoning Commission urged the assembly to pursue talks about relocating at least one site.
Dozens of Petersburg residents urged the Petersburg Borough Assembly to press Title Networks for clearer plans, studies and alternative siting after the company proposed multiple new wireless towers in and near town.
Residents said the key issues are where towers would be sited, whether the project truly serves unserved households, what emergency-response obligations the borough would inherit, and how redacted portions of the Title Networks grant application inform siting decisions. “I drive past probably the largest cell tower with the biggest array of cell antennas in the borough,” one resident said, arguing the borough should “encourage and facilitate infrastructure improvements” where they improve public safety.
Why it matters: residents said towers placed next to daycare centers, the new hospital and the fire station could expose workers and neighbors to prolonged proximity; others argued the service gap is primarily “out the road” and that towers in town…
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