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Is another fight to preserve the Rappahannock
County skyline in the offing?
After enduring the controversy and suffering the results of the Great Powerline Towers that affected the eastern part of the county in the early 1970s, it appears that a new type of tower — this time for cell phone users and others — are being offered for the central and western mountaintops.
Representatives of the telecommunications companies who have contacted landowners in the areas the; want to build the towers have so far met with little success.
While no one would suggest that county residents be deprived of any of the services available elsewhere who would want to look at one of these towers, or inflict such an eyesore on their neighbors?
It’s not likely that county leaders would be easily convinced to sacrifice the skyline and issue permits for such structures without determining the needs and clear benefits for those who live here. That’s jusl the way it’s got to be.
But another concern has been brought up. If it’s not possible to lease private property for tower sites, telecommunications company could locate their towers on state highway or utility company rights-ofway, without the county — or close-by neighbors — having much to say about it.
County Administrator John McCarthy has suggest ed that the Rappahannock County Board of Supervisors and Planning Commission hold a joint public hearing with the telecommunications companies. This is a good idea, and it will show the custodians of public-managed lands just how serious we are about protecting our environment.
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