{"id":439,"date":"2008-03-31T22:19:53","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T02:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/?p=439"},"modified":"2020-12-24T14:24:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T19:24:45","slug":"cell-tower-round-2-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/2008\/03\/31\/cell-tower-round-2-approved\/","title":{"rendered":"Cell Tower: Round 2 &#8211; Approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had this on my list to comment on. March 27, 2008 saw the Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) approval of the Cell Tower at the Bushey&#8217;s location on Fairfield Avenue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a title=\"Bushey&#039;s on Fairfield\" rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/46955.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/t46955.jpg\" alt=\"Bushey's on Fairfield\" width=\"368\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">In the <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"https:\/\/www.journalgazette.net\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20080328\/LOCAL\/803280324\">Journal Gazette&#8217;s<\/span> article of March 28th, Andy Downs states:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The city often asks cell phone tower developers to keep projects at or below 120 feet, but the taller tower will allow more wireless carriers to install antennas on a single structure, board member Andy Downs said. This project can accommodate up to five carriers. That capacity should limit the number of towers carriers need to build in that area, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The more (antenna) locations we can put on that tower, the better,&#8221; Downs said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In an <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"https:\/\/www.jg.net\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20080309\/LOCAL\/803090433\/1002\/LOCAL\">earlier article<\/span>, it was suggested that the City needs a comprehensive plan regarding Cell Tower placement.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/2008\/03\/27\/cell-tower-round-2\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I stated<\/a>, and I feel the above comments back this up, that the BZA is the stopgap in regards to Cell Towers running amok in downtown erecting towers everywhere you look.\u00c2\u00a0 The BZA is to be congratulated for asking the hard questions\u00c2\u00a0of developers.\u00c2\u00a0 I still feel that signal strength downtown is more than adequate and will be even when Harrison Square becomes reality.\u00c2\u00a0 This should also be a lesson to citizens in the City that you will be\u00c2\u00a0heard.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">[poll=2]<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>Related Images:<\/h3>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had this on my list to comment on. March 27, 2008 saw the Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) approval of the Cell Tower at the Bushey&#8217;s location on Fairfield Avenue. In the Journal Gazette&#8217;s article of March 28th, Andy Downs states: The city often asks cell phone tower developers to keep projects at or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[2438,282,197,225,283],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-city-of-fort-wayne-news","tag-ac-board-of-zoning-appeals","tag-busheys","tag-ge-sign","tag-gencomm","tag-jb-towers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cell Tower: Round 2 - Approved - AroundFortWayne<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I&#039;ve had this on my list to comment on. 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