Cell tower at Daly Elementary School in Germantown |
T-Mobile filed a “Request to Extend Time“ with the Montgomery County Board of Appeals ,
concerning special exception S-2709, which authorizes a cell tower next
to Cresthaven Elementary School.
The Montgomery County Board of Appeals
is scheduled to take up the request at its Wednesday February 4th worksession, which will be held at 9:30am,
in Second Floor Davidson Memorial Hearing Room of the Stella B. Werner
Council Office Building, 100 Maryland Ave, Rockville, Maryland 20850.
The details of
the request reveal that T-Mobile wants an extension of time to modify
the design of the cell tower facility. Parents and neighborhood
residents concerned that the planned modifications for this
telecommunications facility would in one way or another result in
something larger, uglier, and more detrimental to Cresthaven Elementary School and the surrounding neighborhood.
The Montgomery County Board of Appeals approved this cell tower in 2011. The current deadline to secure the
cell tower facility construction permits is April 22, 2015. If this
deadline is not met, and if the applicants are not granted the extension
of time, then the rights granted under the special exception to have a
cell tower facility will expire. A request for a new special exception could subsequently be filed. However, recent clarifications to the Zoning Ordinance now make it difficult and perhaps impossible for a cell tower to be granted a special exception at the WHSC property.
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