{"id":10054,"date":"2019-04-04T23:00:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T02:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=10054"},"modified":"2019-04-04T23:00:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T02:00:20","slug":"few-residents-attend-eastlink-cell-tower-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=10054","title":{"rendered":"Few residents attend Eastlink cell tower meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Officials explain proposal for Windsor Jct. tower by GreenTree Recycling<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

LAKEVIEW<\/strong>: Concerns were few from the handful of residents that attended a public meeting put on by Eastlink to detail their proposal for a new monopole tower on April 2 in Lakeview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 50 metre tower, if approved by \nTransport Canada, will be constructed near GreenTree Recycling at the \ncorner of Windsor Junction Road and Cobequid Road. It will be in the \nsame area as the Bell Aliant tower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inside the Halifax Ground \nSearch and Rescue building, Steve Banks and Logan McDaid, Wireless Site \nPlanner with Eastlink, provided details to those who came out for the \nmeeting on a beautiful sunny Tuesday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McDaid said the tower is being installed to provide improved cellular service to the Windsor Junction-Lakeview area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The rendering that the six who attended saw displayed at the meeting. (Healey photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Banks said there would be no moving parts; no noise from it; and there would be no light, and they would use the existing access to the site during the construction phase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A man who had a few concerns spoke to the \ntwo representatives. One of his concerns was why they chose that \nlocation and not further up on top of the hill. He was informed by Banks\n that the landowner would not permit them to go anywhere else but the \nproposed location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The man, who when looking out into his backyard\n he sees the towers, suggested a different type of tower for the \nlocation, one that is stealth\u2014or in other words, hidden, so it doesn\u2019t \nmake it look ugly. Banks said that is something they can look into \nfurther.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In documents as part of the consultation, it said that \nEastlink considers collocation opportunities before proposing new \ntelecommunications towers. In this case, a nearby Bell communications \ntower was examined, but was determined to be unsuitable for co-location \nopportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The public has until April 16 to submit comments, before McDaid has to do a report to submit to HRM Planning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey make their decision based on that,\u201d said McDaid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If approved, they hope construction of the tower could begiun when the warmer weather hits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou\u2019re looking at the summer, at the very earliest, or late summer\/early fall,\u201d said Banks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Officials explain proposal for Windsor Jct. tower by GreenTree Recycling LAKEVIEW: Concerns were few from the handful of residents that attended a public meeting put on by Eastlink to detail their proposal for a new monopole tower on April 2 in Lakeview. The 50 metre tower, if approved by Transport Canada, will be constructed near […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[433,434,359,2,435],"class_list":["post-10054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-cell-tower","tag-cobequid-road","tag-eastlink","tag-fall-river","tag-windsopr-junction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}