Even
though AT&T put up a good fight with the city council of Rio Rancho, New
Mexico, last night the council voted 4-3 to decline AT&T’s appeal to build
a cell phone tower in Sabana Heights Park. The tower was going to be disguised
as a 65-foot clock tower near a neighborhood playground.
AT&T
tried to be flexible and work with the nearby residents. They suggested making
the tower shorter and less wide but they said they couldn’t change the
location. "We were trying to
accommodate the residents' concerns about the size and it interrupting their
views and we want to take that into consideration, but we really do have to
have a tower somewhere," AT&T spokeswoman Karen Kruse said. (Source:
KOB.com)
AT&T considered other locations but they
either weren’t possible to construct on or they wouldn’t provide enough new
cell phone coverage to the area.
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