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RBW Services seeks conditional-use permit for 225-foot wireless tower in Haralson County
Summary
RBW Services Group representative Chris Reynolds asked the Haralson County commission to approve a conditional-use permit for a self-support wireless tower on a 22.73-acre agricultural parcel, saying it would improve cell service and 9-1-1 reliability; commissioners asked about carrier access and structural safety but the transcript shows no final vote.
At a Haralson County commission meeting, Chris Reynolds of RBW Services Group presented a conditional-use request for a telecommunications facility on parcel 00980073, a 22.73-acre agricultural property off Robock Road. Reynolds described a self-support tower with a fenced 100-by-100-foot equipment compound and a 30-foot ingress/egress and utility easement, and said the site is unmanned with only routine monthly maintenance visits.
Reynolds told the commission the project is intended to fill coverage gaps. "Project itself is, on the proposed facilities is now a 2 25 foot self support tower," he said, adding the facility "provides essential public safety and wireless service improvements to the area." He also said propagation maps in the planning submission show overlap with existing sites and that other carriers could collocate in the future.
A committee member asked whether the site was specifically for Verizon and whether other carriers would be allowed to place equipment. Reynolds answered that the initial deployment is for Verizon service but he expected co-location to be available later: "Yes, sir. Other other co—" (exchange indicating openness to other equipment). The committee member pressed on structural safety and asked if the tower's fall radius would be contained within the fenced area; Reynolds said the tower would be engineered to fail in a way that prevents wide debris dispersion and pointed to applicable engineering and screening standards.
Reynolds gave some technical and compliance details, including the parcel identifier (00980073), acreage (22.73 acres), and that the applicant had submitted screening and propagation plans to county planning staff. The transcript does not record a formal vote or a staff recommendation in the public segments; the public-hearing portion was held open for comments and no final decision appears in the recorded segments.
What happens next: The commission heard the presentation and questions; according to the transcript, no final action on the conditional-use permit is recorded in the available segments. Any formal decision, staff report or permit condition would be reflected in future minutes or a staff recommendation that is not present in the captured transcript.
