Aldermen voted 9-2 to give telecommunications company AT&T a conditional use permit for a 125-foot-high monopole that would replace an existing light pole on the baseball field in the park.
The Aurora City Council on Tuesday night approved locating a 125-foot-high cellular tower in Lebanon Park on the city’s southeast side.
The city needed to give the park district and AT&T a conditional use because the monopole will be 125 feet high; if it had been 100 feet high, it would have been allowed without council action. “For me, the public safety question hasn’t been addressed,” he said. “My hope is we could work with AT&T to find a different location.”
Some have said the FCC is tied too closely to the telecommunications industry, so its regulatory efforts are not stringent enough. The other vote against the pole location came from Ald. Edward Bugg, 9th Ward, who questioned why notices to nearby residents were not sent in Spanish. The neighborhood is largely Hispanic, and many people there only speak Spanish.
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