Tower glower
Dan Opalach, of Green Diamond/Simpson, sounded astonished at the residents’ objections to the tower. “Gosh, there appears to be a demand for these kinds of services,” he said. “Don’t they use cell phones? I know I do.” To the accusation that the company had lapsed in its “good-neighbor” policy, he responded, “Gosh, they might feel that way.” But if the company decided to notify the public every time it applied for a building permit, “you could see we could be sending guys out all the time. Where does it stop? Our traditional timber harvest activities, we have to notify that. But to do things above and beyond the law — we can’t do that. … We’re always trying to do the right thing, but gosh, where does the line end?”
Opalach declined to disclose how much Edge Wireless was paying to lease the knoll-top property, and Edge Wireless did not return several phone calls. But Hunter, the county’s senior planner, said she doubts cell towers will proliferate. Sure, there are almost a million acres of land zoned TPZ, covering 45 percent of Humboldt County. And, there are already about 30 cell towers in the county, Hunter said, some “huge cell farms” and others small affairs.
“But they’re not really going to be popping up everywhere,” she said. “They’re fairly expensive, and they’re pretty strategic.”
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