WESTPORT — An alternate site to erect a cell tower on Greens Farms Road — where an earlier proposed location sparked opposition twice over a seven-year period — is in the works.
First Selectwoman Jennifer Tooker on Friday announced that an office complex at 55 Greens Farms Road may supplant the previously designated site at 92 Greens Farm Road, where a cell tower first was proposed in 2014 and again last year.
Tooker said the cell tower applicant, Tarpon/AT&T, and the office complex owner have tentatively reached an agreement to locate the tower on the northeast corner of the property.
Pending approval, that agreement apparently would replace plans last year by Tarpon/AT&T to erect a 124-foot-high cell tower on the privately owned, 1.86-acre property at 92 Greens Farms Road. That is the same location where a controversial plan to build a cell tower also was advanced, but later withdrawn, in 2014. The site is not far from Interstate 95 and Hillspoint Road.
When the plan to erect the tower was revived last year, then-First Selectman Jim Marpe and neighbors objected to the application, reflecting the local opposition that greeted the original plan seven years earlier.
The newly proposed location at 55 Greens Farms Road still would require a wetland crossing, an application that will be reviewed Jan. 31 by the Conservation Commission.
A public information meeting will be held Feb. 8 to discuss the two proposed locations.
Both meetings will be conducted virtually. Detailed links to those meetings, although not final as of Friday, will be posted on the town’s website.
“I urge neighbors of both locations — 92 Greens Farms Road and 55 Greens Farms Road — to attend the Conservation Commission meeting on Jan. 31, when the wetlands issue will be the primary focus, and the public information session on Feb. 8, when there will be a full discussion of this cell tower proposal.
“These are important issues for neighbors and the entire Westport community. I encourage interested Westporters to participate in these public meetings,” Tooker added.
This area has limited cellular phone service, and if you don’t have a landline it’s difficult or impossible to even call 911 !
That is a good reason to have a landline.
I say, no, no,no !
Does anyone care about the health implications of this proposed tower? This can affect the health of not only the current neighbors of the area but the wildlife! I prefer a healthy environment to having the best cellular phone service !