Blue Sky Towers has reactivated their application to put a cell tower on our neighbor’s property. The Planning & Development Commission will hear the case on October 1 and we are busy preparing for that meeting. Yours truly is leading the effort - learning to be a lawyer, an engineer, a petition writer, an organizer, and a land use manager. Oh, and a journalist! Well, at least I have some experience there.
We would appreciate your help, if you feel inclined, writing our county to let them know you oppose this tower too. If you’re interested, please send an email to Joanna Coutu by September 10. Her email is [email protected] - reference Blue Sky Towers Application No. CU-2026-0003 in Crystal River, Florida. Ms. Coutu will forward emails to the PDC members.
Because cell towers have federal protections, it does us no good to argue that they have a health or environmental impact. Governjng bodies cannot vote them down based on those factors. Here are the talking points that work well if you want to include these in your email. Though of course, write whatever you feel is best. We very much appreciate your help!
1- it is massive industrial infrastructure that does not fit the character of our neighborhood, which is an established residential community with many single family homes. It will be visually intrusive.
2- Blue Sky Towers is asking for a conditional use permit so they don’t have to obey county code, which requires structures be 150 ft or less (this is slated to be 185 ft but they can add 20ft more to it once built with no permission needed). This will weaken county codes which protect local communities and set a precedent for loss of local control.
3-There is an onslaught of Big Business reaching into communities to build industrial infrastructure and if we allow it, our neighborhoods will become unrecognizable.
4- According to Dr Kent Chamberlin, who wrote an expert engineering report for us, there are existing towers in the area which provide full coverage - any carrier wishing to enhance their signal can simply colocate equipment on these towers. Blue Sky has not proven that they must build a tower at this location, that there are no other options.
5- This is not about safety. Safety is the ability to call 911, which we have the ability to do here. This tower proposal is about profit for cellular companies who want to gain more customers for in-home wireless internet services.
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