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Fire District Commissioner Andy Reeve (left) discusses the application with attorney John Coughlin Wednesday night in advance of the ZBA approving a variance and special permit that allow the project to go forward.
The Zoning Board of Appeals removed the final hurdle Wednesday night enabling the Shelter Island Fire District, Elite Towers and Verizon to move forward with its plan for a 120-foot cell tower at the Manhanset Firehouse on Cobbetts Lane.
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Rendering of what Elite Towers said its proposed tower at the Manhanset firehouse could look like.
Wednesday night the Zoning Board of Appeals will take up an issue related to the proposed cell tower at the Manhanset Firehouse on Cobbetts Lane. (more…)
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The Manhanset firehouse is the site of a proposed cell and emergency communications tower.
The proposal by the Board of Fire Commissioners to construct a 120-foot cell phone and emergency services communications tower at the Manhanset firehouse on Cobbetts Lane had a public hearing before the Town Board on June 15. (more…)
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The mystery of what looked like missing revenue due the town from a company for payments to keep an antenna on the cell tower at the Recycling Center is solved. (more…)
REPORTER FILE PHOTO Public Works Commissioner Jay Card.
Highway Superintendent Jay Card Jr. and the Town Board are working on a resolution they want to adopt affecting the standards under which roads will be built.
While Mr. Card told the Board at Tuesday’s work session he doesn’t envision the town putting in any new roads, developers of housing communities would likely be installing roads to serve those areas. What he wants is to ensure that those roads will meet the necessary standards to wear well and not break down early. (more…)