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September 9, 1998
T ed Shepard, S emor Plarmer
Current Planning, City of Ft. Collins
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Ft. Collins, CO 80522-0580
Dear Mr. Shepard:
This letter is in regard to the project known as 625 East Harmony Road - Wireless Telecommunication Equipment, #27-98.
The proposal involves a request to locate wireless telecommunications antennas on the roof of the Front Range Baptist Church,
along with a satellite dish.
The Fairway Estates Property Owner's Association adamantly opposes this request. In the past several years our neighborhood
has been absolutely assaulted on every front by development projects approved by the City. Our lakes have been filled with trash
from parking lot runoff, our streets have become through -ways for cut -through traffic seeking to avoid the overcrowded
intersection of College Avenue and Harmony Road. Now, we're being asked to submit to a flock of antennas atop already
unattractive structures for the benefit of private industry.
The proliferation of these antennas and satellite dishes should concern every resident of Ft. Collins -and the city government as
well. You can paint them any color blue you want, but they're still obvious, they're still ugly, and they still certainly don't fit in
with what the City supposedly embraced as the Harmony Corridor strategy of creating an attractive, uncluttered gateway into the
city from I-25.
We were not advised or asked when the Poudre Fire Authority added a huge section to the top of their communications tower at
Station 5, which is in our subdivision. Maybe they didn't have to ask, but it would have been at least been common courtesy to
consult with us, as we have tried to be good neighbors to the fire department personnel who work there, including inviting them to
our July 4rh picnics, along with their families. Maybe the addition to that tower was absolutely necessary to maintain adequate
emergency service capability, and if so, we accept that, in spite of the ugliness of the structure. But to continue to accept more
and more of these eyesores just to benefit private industry is the wrong thing to do. There are many other ways these
telecommunications companies can achieve the infrastructure they need without creating additional visual clutter along the
Harmony Corridor.
We ask that this request be denied.
Sincerely,
FAIRWAY ESTATES PROPERTY OWNER'S ASSOCIATION
Chuck Panella
President
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