Article: San Ramon panel rejects cell phone tower

SAN RAMON -- Plans for a 50-foot cell phone tower off San Ramon Valley Boulevard have been rejected by a city advisory panel.

Architectural Review board members said that while there are plenty of locations that would be appropriate for a towering 2-foot- thick communications pole, a church parking lot in a residential area is not one of them.

Calling it "completely inappropriate" and "out of scale," board members late last month rejected the notion of a cell phone tower at the American Baptist Church of the Valley near Montevideo Drive.

The pole was proposed by T-Mobile, which wants to increase cellular service along the Interstate 680 corridor and for nearby residences. Although the ...

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