The AT&T tower proposed for 737 Washington Blvd is back and will go thru the Land Use and Planning Committee (LUPC), according to a verbal agreement from AT&T. Robin Rudisill, chair of LUPC, is awaiting written confirmation from AT&T.

It was scheduled to be heard by the Zoning Administrator 7 August.

This tower came up a couple years ago and the neighbors hired an attorney and the neighbors won. Many have asked “Isn’t there a law against harassing us again?”

Challis Macpherson, former chair of the land use and planning committee, gave the following for an answer to that question:

This will be of no consolation whatsoever, but in 1973 your government and mine declared that there were NO health issues with cellular installations. It is viewed as a “project” like any other project. Projects can reapply. Stakeholders can reapply. Like it or not utilities are stakeholders in a community.

IMHO the best opposition is a constant one. Major firms rely on activists either getting discouraged, or leaving, or dying as they come back time after time until they wear us down or we go away.

I keep thinking of that line in “Casey at the Bat.” “There is no joy in Mudville tonight for mighty Casey has struck out.” Well, we can’t afford to strike out, so we have to keep coming up to the plate.