UGLY ALERT: City of Stonecrest Allows 200' Cell Tower

 

Katrina Langford (far left) Lynn Goodwin, Phillip Kelly and Virginia Pierce-Kelly stand in front of the cell built behind their neighborhood earlier this year.  

Photo: EMILY HANEY / emily.haney@ajc.com

The city of Stonecrest said a controversial cell tower built behind homes earlier this year can remain standing, using a legal reasoning its neighbors called problematic.

Stonecrest City Attorney Winston Denmark released an opinion late last week saying the tower’s construction in mid-January was legal, despite decades-old documents suggesting the land was only zoned commercial on the condition that a summer day care be built there.  

The city approved a permit last year for Vertical Bridge to construct the cell tower on Evans Mill Road. 

The 199-foot tower sits behind homes in a subdivision, where residents have grown frustrated at the city’s response.  The residents were frustrated that is was built without a public hearing being held. Not only is it an eyesore, they said, but they are also worried about the possible health effects of cell towers.

(Read more here:  https://www.ajc.com/news/local/residents-irate-city-backs-cell-tower-citing-legal-technicality/obB13KDZEKYv1tEGSc72DN/)