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A star marks the tower location next to Webb Lake in Weld where AT&T plans to build a cellphone tower. The dark area indicates the cellphone coverage expected with the tower.
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WELD The Board of Appeals voted unanimously Monday night, Jan. 11, to send the AT&T cellphone tower application back to the Planning Board.
The Planning Board considered the application during an informational meeting in July. Several comments, complaints and questions were raised then.
A star marks the tower location next to Webb Lake in Weld where AT&T plans to build a cellphone tower. The dark area indicates the current coverage area for cellphone reception.
According to the Board of Appeals ruling, specific requirements not met included:
• The September meeting was plagued with technical difficulties such that Planning Board members and attendees couldn’t hear one another.
• Roll call votes, required by state law, weren’t taken.
• The Planning Board failed to address each of the nine standards included under Article 21, the commercial and industrial structures section of the Weld Building Ordinance.
• The Planning Board concluded incorrectly that the deed AT&T submitted showed sufficient proof of right title and interest.
Later that month the Planning Board took no action on a request to reconsider the AT&T cellphone tower application.
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A star marks the tower location next to Webb Lake in Weld where AT&T plans to build a cellphone tower. The dark area indicates the current coverage area for cellphone reception.
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WELD The Planning Board took no action Wednesday night on a request to reconsider the AT&T cellphone tower application.
In January, the Board of Appeals sent the issue back to the Planning Board, ruling that specific requirements were not met.
At the March 17 meeting, the board voted to adopt the findings of fact and conclusions from the Feb. 17 meeting regarding AT&T SAI Communications’ application. It also agreed to discuss the reconsideration request emailed March 8 by the committee.
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WELD The Board of Appeals on Tuesday sent AT&T’s permit to build a 190-foot cellphone tower back to the Planning Board with instructions to provide more information.
Ted Small, attorney for AT&T, speaks Tuesday at the Weld Board of Appeals meeting.
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Among the issues it cited are determining if the company has right, title and interest in the property, and clarifying its written findings. Planners are also instructed to hold further proceedings as it deems necessary or appropriate.
The 190-foot tower would be across from Lost Cove, just before Fire Lane 17 and beyond the Weld Inn on the Phillips Road. AT&T has leased the site from Kevin and Holly Cochran.