Looking down the double-barrel of a petition signed by 341 citizens and a crowded room, the Roswell City Council unanimously rejected a plan to allow cell towers at the fire station on Jones Road and Lake Charles Drive. T-Mobile South applied to the city to lease land at the fire station to erect a 150-foot cell [...]
Archive for the ‘Cell & RadioTowers’ Category
13 Dec
Roswell Approves Additional 13 Feet for Hembree Park Cell Tower
Roswell City Council approves an additional 13 feet in height for the cell tower located in the Hembree Park allowing the tower to stand 193 feet tall. The decision to allow additional height was to encourage co-location of another cell provider on the same tower and to avoid the proposed cell tower on city-owned land [...]
31 Oct
Sandy Springs Approves Four 303-Foot Radio Towers
The Sandy Springs City Council voted 5-1 to approve four 303-foot radio towers at the northeast, southeast, northwest and southwest corners of Blue Heron Golf Course on Morgan Falls Road. The approval will allow Sandy Springs Broadcasting LLC and its parent company, American Media Services LLC (both based in Charleston) to construct the four radio towers to create a local [...]
29 May
Aesthetic-Based Cell Tower Zoning Ordinance Upheld
On May 13, 2008, the United States District Court, Northern District of Georgia held that the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (TCA), 47 U.S.C. § 151 et seq., does not preempt state or local zoning powers so long as local governments (1) do not unreasonably discriminate among providers; (2) prohibit personal wireless services; or, (3) limit [...]
