Verizon seeks 100-foot cell tower to improve service in Greenland: Here are details
GREENLAND — Verizon wants to install a 100-foot-tall cell tower across from the Target department store on Route 33 in an effort to improve coverage in several key areas around town.
The proposal calls for the telecommunications company to install and operate the tower at 1419 Greenland Road in town, a parcel that currently includes a fuel storage business at the northern end of the site. The proposal filed with the town notes the 2,450-square-foot compound would be developed on the southern end of the property.
Verizon’s plan was proposed to the town by Atlantic Towers, a telecommunications infrastructure developer.
Service gaps exist around the location of the proposed facility, the plan says.
“Verizon Wireless determined that installing the proposed wireless communications facility at 1419 Greenland Road in Greenland at an antenna centerline height of 95 feet (above ground level) will provide additional coverage and capacity needed in the targeted coverage areas along State Highway 33, Portsmouth (Avenue), Country Club Road, including the busy shopping, businesses and recreational areas in the proximity of the proposed site, as well as in the area of I-95,” reads a report from C Squared Systems, LLC engineer Sohail Usmani on behalf of Verizon. “Without the installation of the proposed site, Verizon Wireless will be unable to improve and expand its wireless communication services in this area of Greenland; therefore, Verizon Wireless respectfully requests that the Town of Greenland act favorably upon the proposed facility.”
The Greenland Planning Board will hold a public hearing on the proposal on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in the Town Hall conference room.
Verizon’s proposed facility would include upwards of nine panel antennas, remote radio heads and a cable bridge from the proposed equipment cabinets to the tower “to protect cabling between Verizon Wireless’ equipment and the cable entry port located near the base of the monopole,” according to the plan.
“The proposed site at 1419 Greenland Road is needed to fill in these targeted gaps in service, in order to improve network quality and reliability for Verizon Wireless subscribers traveling along these roads, as well as to the numerous residents, businesses, and visitors in this area,” Usmani’s report adds.
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The Greenland Road lot is owned by Wakefield Investments, LLC, the president of which is David Schelzi. A letter of authorization from Schelzi regarding the proposal is attached to Verizon’s plan filed with the town.
The property is located in Greenland’s Telecom Overlay District within the town’s Industrial Zone. Town zoning code permits such facilities in the Telecom Overlay District by special exception.
The town’s Zoning Board of Adjustment granted the special exception to the applicant on Dec. 5.
“The monopole is located within a compound completely surrounded by a 6 foot tall chain-link fence, which is set back from public right of ways far enough to be imperceptible. Within the compound are various components of supporting communication equipment for Atlantic’s customers, along with additional space for future carriers,” the proposal adds.
Verizon has an existing cell tower on Breakfast Hill Road.
This article originally appeared on Portsmouth Herald: Verizon says new cell tower would improve service in Greenland NH
