Assembly advances wireless tower zoning ordinance; public hearing set for June 1

After more than a year of mounting community pressure over the locations of wireless broadband towers in Petersburg, the Borough Assembly voted unanimously Monday to advance a comprehensive wireless communications zoning ordinance on its first reading, encouraging the public to submit written comments during the two weeks before a scheduled public hearing June 1.

The ordinance - 17 pages of amended municipal code accompanied by a seven-page explanatory memo from Community Development Director Liz Cabrera - would establish Petersburg's first structured permitting framework for wireless communic...

 
 

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