Today
the Teton County commissioner will decide whether or not to continue a month’s
long moratorium on new cell phone towers in Wyoming. By continuing this
suspension on cell towers, the county will be able to take their time in
writing new regulations. The county has hired a consultant to work with to
draft the regulations.
“Our
goal is to make this a very strict and limited timeline that we’re going to
have to deliver on,” said Teton County Commission Chairman Paul Vogelheim.
“This is something we can do in 90 to 100 days.” (Source: jhnewsandguide.com)
The
cell tower freeze was implemented two weeks ago when the county started discussing
the possibility of a 110-foot tower being placed on the hill above Swinging
Bridge. This moratorium sparked AT&T’s Cheryl Riley to write to the county
reminding them that federal law, “states that state and local ‘regulation of
the placement, construction and modification of personal wireless service
facilities ... shall not prohibit or have the effect of prohibiting the
provision of personal wireless services.’”
Even
though Teton County can put a temporary freeze in place, the Federal
Communications Act of 1996 restricts county and municipal governments from
blocking cell phone companies’ plans to build their networks and provide
adequate service to their customers.
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