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Planning commission votes to intervene in Route 140 tower filing, appoints representative
Summary
Tinmouth Planning Commission voted to join the selectboard as an intervenor in Industrial Wireless Telecommunications LLC's Route 140 radio-tower application and appointed 'Gail' as the commission's representative; commissioners discussed procedural timing for requesting a hearing and next steps.
The Tinmouth Planning Commission voted to participate as an intervenor in Industrial Wireless Telecommunications LLC's application for a radio tower on Route 140 and appointed Gail to represent the commission.
At the meeting, Judy Gilmore moved "that we respond indeed with Gail at the helm," which Larry Sherwood seconded. Commission members voiced their support in the meeting's roll call; Judy Gilmore and Vito explicitly said "aye." Commission members and RPC staff discussed that registering as an intervenor is done online and that requesting a hearing would extend the deadline for written comments and allow the town to ask questions during a hearing process. Judy Gilmore told the group that if a hearing is granted, "we will have time to respond and make our opinions known."
The commission asked RPC to review the application filings (engineer reports and Department of Environmental Conservation documents) to assemble the factual basis for the town's comments. Commissioners noted that the applicant filed with different corporate names at different times and that filings include engineer reports that should be reviewed before preparing the town's substantive response. The commission directed staff to sign up as an intervenor and to prepare a draft response for review ahead of any hearing.
