Verizon Wireless has told county officials it will ask for a postponement of a decision on its request to put a 190-foot cell tower on farmland near the Eastville community.
The Board of Commissioners is scheduled to take up the request for a special use permit for the cell tower at its meeting tomorrow night, but Jennifer Blackburn, attorney for Verizon Wireless, told Oconee County Planner Brad Callender on Wednesday afternoon that she would like to defer the decision.
Callender said that he told Blackburn that a representative of Verizon will have to show up tomorrow night at the scheduled public hearing before the BOC to make the request in person for the delay.
Blackburn told Callender that the delay is to allow for a reexamination of the possibility that the existing American Tower Corporation tower 1.25 miles west of the proposed site can be utilized to “substantially meet the primary service objectives of the proposed site.”
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