Town hears multi-step plan to host a cell tower on town-owned property

Planning Director Mr. Blunt told the Board of Aldermen the town has been approached by a tower company interested in leasing a small pad on town-owned property at the end of Sowers (Souris) Ferry Road to host a monopole cell tower. He said the company’s proposed compound would occupy roughly a 50-by-50 (or 75-by-75) fenced area; the town would only lease a small square inside a larger roughly five-acre parcel that Mr. Blunt said would be described precisely in a rezoning application.

Mr. Blunt said the site is currently zoned Civic, which does not permit towers; the town would seek a conditional rezoning to an industrial-conditional designation that would add cell towers as an allowed conditional use. He outlined the approvals required under state law and the town’s ordinance: deed verification, a rezoning…