Article: ROCKVILLE DENIES HEIGHT WAIVER FOR SPRINT CELL PHONE TOWER IN TWINBROOK AREA

The city of Rockville issued the following press release:

Rockville's Mayor and Council on Monday, Nov. 13, unanimously denied an application by Sprint for a waiver of the City's 50-foot height limit that the communications company sought to enable it to build a 98-foot cellular phone tower in the Twinbrook neighborhood.

The height limit applies to cell phone towers (also called "monopoles") in a residential zone or within 500 feet of a residential zone. Sprint wanted to build the tower on the property of the Twinbrook Mart Shopping Center located at 2001 Veirs Mill Road.

In May, approximately a dozen people testified at a public hearing the Mayor and Council held on the proposal. The ...

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