A proposal to erect a 175-foot tall cell phone tower in Huntley failed to gain approval at Thursday night’s Village Board meeting.
The Huntley Village Board voted unanimously to reject the petition from SBA Towers II LLC. for a special use permit establishing a wireless telecommunication service facility on the north side of the Union Pacific Railroad tracks.
Last week at a Committee of the Whole meeting, Village Board members agreed to consider the proposal for a vote at Thursday’s meeting. SBA’s request for a permit had been rejected by the Plan Commission this month, also by a 6-0 vote.
SBA, an independent operator and owner of wireless towers, has said the telecommunications carriers it worked with identified the site location to provide better service coverage to its customers. The proposed location would deliver stronger and “uninterrupted signal coverage in the downtown area and on the major transportation routes through town,” SBA said in a statement submitted to the village.
If approved, the tower’s 2,500-square-foot wide facility area would have been on the southeast end of a manufacturing-zoned lot, about 320 feet from Mill Street.
But some residents have been opposed to the proposal. At a public hearing earlier this month, they said the location was not suitable for such a facility. Others, including Donna Britton, chairwoman of Huntley’s Historic Preservation Commission, expressed concerns about how the 175-foot tower structure and its facility would affect the aesthetics of the surrounding neighborhood.
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