Board to reconsider cell phone tower permits
by Winston Jones/Sentinel
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T-Mobile will get another chance Tuesday to seek special use permits to build two 150-foot telecommunications towers in rural Douglas County.

A U.S. District Court, North District, judge remanded the requests back to the planning and zoning hearing for reconsideration by the Board of Commissioners (BOC). The BOC rejected, by 4-1 votes, both requests at a July 7 joint meeting of the Planning and Zoning (P&Z) and BOC. District 4 Commissioner David Latham cast the sole dissenting votes on both requests.

“No additional public hearing will be held Tuesday,” said Amy Brumelow, county planning and zoning director. “The judge has bound them to the original record. They will again review the public record and merits of the case before reaching a new decision. They could make the same decision or change it.”

The sites proposed by T-Mobile include property at 3679 Spivey Drive and on Mt. Vernon Road.

Other items for consideration at the 6 p.m. P&Z meeting at Citizens Hall in the county courthouse include:

• special use permit request by Truth and Deliverance Ministries Inc. to allow a church in a planned center on property at 2118 Fairburn Road;

• and rezoning from R-LD (low density residential) to C-G (general commercial) for a retail and office center on Highway 92/166 property.

The joint meeting will also include a public hearing on the five-year partial update of the county’s comprehensive land use plan, adoption of the updated county zoning map and a resolution updating the 2025 comprehensive plan.

The meeting will also hear several amendments to the unified development code including those on property owners associations, major subdivisions, guarantees in lieu of completed improvements and procedures for final plat approval.

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