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From:
<Iloyd@engr.colostate.edu>
To:
SOLT@fcgov.com
Date:
4/9/2009 7:17:11 AM
Subject:
Cell Tower Proposal Comments
Cell Tower Comments
To: Steve Olt
Thank you for hosting the recent meeting regarding a cell tower proposal
at Taft and Valley Forge site. Based on that meeting I offer the
following observation regarding the proposal and request it be included in
the meeting report;
While this site is zoned for such an installation, there is a lack of
compatibility with the surrounding land uses. This is a small NC site as
compared to other sites where such towers have been installed- Cedarwood
Plaza and the Whole Foods NC site were given as examples. These sites are
much larger and their buildings' scale, size, bulk and height allow such a
tower to be absorbed by the site with much less visual presence. On the
proposed site, residential housing immediately surrounds the site, thus
there is no spatial buffering as there is on the larger sites. In
addition the site contains only one single story building thus
highlighting the tower in more stark contrast. In my opinion, such a site
is too small to provide adequate buffering to mitigate the visual effects
on surrounding properties and the project should be denied.
Regards,
Lloyd Walker