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Ridgewood board approves temporary cell phone tower
JUNE 6, 2014 LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 2014, 12:31 AM
BY LAURA HERZOG
STAFF WRITER
objections of a group of residents, the Ridgewood Zoning Board of Adjustment approved AT&T’s application to place a temporary cell tower at the Exxon Mobil station site on Route 17 in Ridgewood.
The removal date of the temporary tower, which will sit on a trailer, is Dec. 31, 2014, according to Zoning Officer Tony Merlino.
“This removal date was a condition of the approval, along with fencing/screening requirements,” Merlino noted in an email to The Ridgewood News.
At least 18 residents opposing the project were present at the meeting, according to Merlino.
Resident Diane Haderthauer, who lives near the tower and helped alert her neighbors to the issue, said she and other residents are concerned about what will happen after the temporary tower is removed. At that point, AT&T has said it plans to take steps to upgrade a permanent 120-foot tower that is already located nearby on Franklin Turnpike. This tower currently looks like a flagpole.
Haderthauer said the concern of the residents is “if they do remove this temporary struc-ture, how will that affect the flagpole?”
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