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THE GAZETTE, for the week of 9/19-9/25, has a detailed front page story on the proposed Homeland cell tower meeting. As mentioned some months back, Homeland Towers LLC proposes a tower to address coverage issues in the area of CET/the Croton River Gorge. A balloon test is likely to occur in November; the "vote" (an informal polling) was 4 to 1 with the mayor the sole dissenting vote.
The article is one you should read in its entirety; find The Gazette on sale just about everywhere.
tx coverage is awful, needs to be fixed for fire people, residents, school. wish it could go someplace else but them's the breaks. this is the world we live in now: cars, no more landlines.
ReplyDeleteCell/tx service is the worst possible communication method to rely on in an event of an emergency. Remember all the blackouts and 9/11, cell service was the first to go. We need a better system than relying on cell service. Also sorry but having it that close to the school will bring home prices down.
ReplyDeleteMy experience with 9/11 was that only cell phones (one provider worked better than others) would work since the wired network was overloaded. I was working in Queens and my wife worked in the Bronx and it was the only way we coild keep in touch. As you can guess, I am for improving cell service in Croton. The good of the many instead of the few.
DeleteI am for the tower as well.
DeleteYou make a good point about the impact on property values. For example, with the village having re-zoned Harmon and actively marketed it to HUD http://saveharmon.com/2013/09/20/village-to-hud-harmon-for-sale.aspx people do have to be concerned that their single family homes could now be located in a sea of 'affordable housing' apartment buildings. There are many factors that affect housing values. Zoning is one of them. But also not having cell coverage even if it is the best communication method probably doesn't help either. I am the only one of my friends that still uses a landline. How many times have I seen my neighbors walking up and down the block trying to hold onto their connections.
ReplyDeleteSo while it's not the best it's all we have for now. No cell coverage is a real problem at the school. Imagine an emergency.
On the other hand I know cell towers aren't pretty. Then again the board didn't have any problem using the Croton River for a concrete storage yard some years ago, remember that one. Hey Maria do you have any of those articles?
I located them all but will not post them at the present time so as not to distract from the issue. However, it may become necessary to do so later.
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