>T-Mobile asked to look around for other cell tower location
THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 2011
BY KELLY EBBELS
STAFF WRITER
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
An application for a 120-foot cell phone tower was met Tuesday night with resistance from village zoning officials and residents, who challenged T-Mobile to look for locations other than an area within 50 feet of residential property lines.
Ridgewood resident Jennifer Hroncich questions a proposal to build a 120-foot cell phone tower on Barnett Place.
The applicants amended their plans since their first appearance at the Zoning Board of Adjustment in March, reducing the height of the proposed cell tower from 140 feet to 120 feet, and reduced the number of antennae from 12 to six.
However, zoning board members were hesitant to sign off on the cell tower’s proposed location, on Barnett Place near First Street, by the northern border with Ho-Ho-Kus, and pressed the applicants to inquire with the Village of Ridgewood about locating a tower elsewhere, such as by the village’s firehouse on the corner of Maple and Glen avenues.
