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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July
Western Maine trails received $87,000 in grants with $30,000 granted to The Rangeley Lakes Heritage Trust to improve wayfaring in the trust’s 36 miles of trails. Trailhead signs and trail markers will be improved and an in-town trail between Rangeley’s Lakeside Park and the Rangeley Public Library will be constructed.
“Rangeley Lakes Heritage Trust has conserved more than 14,000 acres in the region for public access and the wayfinding system will be critical to keeping access safe and educational,” David Miller, executive director of The Rangeley Lakes Heritage Trust, said.
The Maine State Fire Marshal’s office released a report the first week of July that included several first-hand accounts of the Sept. 16, 2019, LEAP Inc. building explosion in Farmington. Accounts from firefighters confirmed that there was no smell of propane outside or inside of the building. While no propane was detected around the tank, the measurement readings in the basement w