2005-03-09 Meeting Report (Communications Tower)Neighborhood Meeting
Report Form
SPIN Neighborhood 16
Meeting Date: 03/09/05
Meeting Topic and Description:
Proposed communications tower at Carroll Senior High School
Featured Speakers:
Zone Systems: Peter Kavanaugh; CISD: Dale Crane, Harry Ingalls; Verizon:
Scott Kates
Others: Council member Virginia Musyka; Assist to the City Manager Ben
Thatcher; SPIN 16 Rep Jon Wiersum
Number of neighbors attending: 14
Location of meeting: Southlake Town Hall, Training Room 3D
Notification Process: (ie: flyer mailed, hand delivered, calls, city publications, etc.)
Post cards, SPIN# 16 mailing SPIN signs Hwy 1709; Local Newspapers
Follow -Up Information:
Zone Systems to: 1) Provide RF (Radio Frequency) coverage propagation
maps for the original proposed site (NW corner of Carroll Sr. High School
site) to the homeowners in advance of the P &Z meeting, 2) Bring an RF
engineer to the P &Z meeting, and 3) Assess the utilization of existing tower at
the Greenbrier site and provide at the P &Z meeting.
Prepared by: Jon Wiersum
March 9, 2005
Cell Tower 11
Questions:
Can you draw on the site plan a circle of the range of locations that what would work for
Verizon Wireless?
There has been no movement toward a compromise since the last few meetings in P &Z
and SPIN, so why are we here tonight?
I want to know if Verizon Wireless has exhausted all possibilities before considering the
school site.
Do existing Verizon Wireless customers in the area that Verizon Wireless is trying to
service better complain about lack of service (dropped calls, etc.)?
We asked you to move it north, but you have not said whether or not that will work for
you there. Will the tower work for you just north of the indoor practice facility?
o A) Our RF engineer has said that would not be a viable location for us, and the
school board has also said that they do not want to put the tower there.
Would the school board consider the north side on 1709?
o A) Yes, that was the recommended site at first but it is not feasible for Verizon
Wireless.
Can you bring an RF engineer to the next P &Z meeting?
o A) Yes, in fact there was one at the last P &Z meeting.
What will happen in the future when technology is better and you don't need the tower?
o A) If technology advances to the degree that we do not need the tower, then we
will take it down; because we are renting that space from the school and it does
not make economic sense to continue to lease the land, also there are laws that
require an abandoned cell tower to be taken down within 6 months of disbanding
service.
Can you look and see whether or not the Greenbriar site is a feasible alternative to the
school?
Comments:
The proposed tower is the least high profile of a structure (flagpole look); there is one
located at Tour 18.
Placement of towers isn't black and white
Park Place Resident "Sounds like most neighborhoods cannot be appeased at the same
time... Verizon Wireless is willing to work with us."
The alternate proposed location at the baseball diamond will knock 20ft off the tower,
look like a flagpole, and the equipment will be under the bleachers. It will fit in better at
the field than anywhere else on the campus.
It appears as if Verizon Wireless is not offering any other solutions.
It is just an issue of compromise.