Please reach us at info@stoptheoldtavernrdcelltower.com if you cannot find an answer to your question.
We are in the process of hiring an attorney to represent our neighborhood. In addition to launching this website, we have reached out to local media and are soliciting support from our local elected officials, First Selectman James Zeoli and Mayor Anthony Giannattasio. We are asking that they show their support for our community with State officials and, if this tower is necessary, they work together to find a better location for the site.
We are encouraging supporters to please to reach out to our Local and State Leaders to express your concern about the lack of transparency in the process. Inquire about why these cell towers are being placed in residential areas of our community. We also ask that you please join us on the Siting Council Zoom Meeting on September 24th at 6:30PM as a show of support.
The Connecticut Siting Council website has additional details on the project. This website stoptheoldtavernrdcelltower.com will be regularly updated, and you can sign up to receive regular updates. Please reach out to us by email info@stoptheoldtavernrdcelltower.com and we will do our best to answer your questions. We also welcome thoughts on how best to notify the community about cell tower projects.
More and more towers are slated to be constructed in our area amid residential neighborhoods. This proposed tower is within 500 feet of families with children, elderly, retirees and homemakers. If this tower goes through, it sets a precedent that towers of this magnitude can be built anywhere without community input and limited awareness or transparency.
A small number of residents of Orange and Milford (only those who have land directly abutting the site) were notified via certified mail in late June 2024 that talks had begun in 2020 and a lease had been signed in 2022 between the landowner, Frederick A. Knight, and Verizon.
No. Verizon’s coverage page on their website clearly indicates no gap or lack of coverage in the area of the tower. Towers are denied when they cannot prove that they meet a need, and in this case, there is no demonstrated or clear need.
The cell tower is a metal industrial structure, with electrical panels, a diesel generator, an enclosed chain link fence compound with barbed wire that will house the 120 foot monopole and the potential 48 cellular antennas that it is equipped to hold. This will blight the landscape, be out of keeping with the neighborhoods residential characteristics and be an eyesore. Towers can and do collapse and catch fire. Right now our neighborhood has untouched beauty, a natural environment with abundant wildlife, flora and fauna surrounding them. We want to keep it that way.
A 2005 study done by Sandy Bond, PhD. In the Appraisal Journal state that “cell phone base stations have a negative impact on the houses in the area.” People are less likely to want to live and to buy near a cell tower, and it can impact home and land values by decreasing them between 20-30%. According to the National Institute for Science, Law and Public Policy, 79% of people said under no circumstance would they ever purchase or rent a property within a few blocks of a cell tower or antenna. 94% said a nearby cell tower would negatively impact interest in a property or the price they would be willing to pay for it. Visit our Research page for more information.
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