The FCC shouldn’t adopt new tower siting rules...
The FCC shouldn’t adopt new tower siting rules that “would restrict opportunities for government and industry to collaborate on creative, innovative solutions to difficult siting challenges,” city government leaders from two Colorado cities -- Arvada and Thornton -- told FCC…
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Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel and her senior legal adviser, David Goldman, during a meeting Tuesday, Kissinger Fellman lawyer Kenneth Fellman said in an ex parte posted Friday. Fellman, Arvada City Council member Bob Fifer and Colorado Communications and Utility Alliance President Todd Barnes, communications director for Thornton’s city government, told Rosenworcel and Goldman that there are multiple examples of “creative wireless facilities siting” in Colorado and Washington, the ex parte said. A “one-size-fits-all rule” is inappropriate for defining a “substantial change in physical dimensions” of a tower or base station, Barnes and Fifer said. The officials also urged the FCC to allow local courts to handle any violations of the new tower siting rules because many jurisdictions don’t have the financial resources to retain counsel in Washington or to travel there to “defend local decisions” (http://bit.ly/1tfhztg).