The
Comprehensive Review Draft of the Prince George’s County Zoning Rewrite may be
found here:
Definitions
p. 27-2-81
Standards
Specific to Principal Uses: pp. 27-5-35
- 27-5-37
When I
look at the Use Tables which identify zones where cell phone towers are
permitted by right, allowed by special exception, prohibited or allowable by
approval of District Council, I see that
Wireless telecommunications tower, monopole are Permitted by Right in every residential and commercial zones except for
planned development zones where it is allowable subject to approval by the
District Council.
From what I am
reading while there is a set back, there
is NO WAY for a community to stop one in their community because as long a it
meets the criteria here- it is permitted.
Plus if an engineer certifies that it will fall in half (read the code
below on definitions) then the set back
can be decreased. (This needs to be fixed because even if it does fall in half, things can fall off
atower so the fall zone should in fact be far wider than the height of the
tower) So a monopole can be placed in communities, near homes, likely within 40
feet without a public hearing or notice.
With this zoning all the company
needs to do is apply and meet the requirements to put a tower near our homes. The community will get no notification and no public hearing.
The deadline for providing comments on the zoning rewrite is December 15, 2017.
PLEASE WRITE THEM
Email comments to: ZoningPGC@ppd.mncppc.org or use the Civic Comment tool at: https://pgplanning.civicomment.org/subtitle-27-zoning-ordinance-comprehensive-review-draft
Please
take a look at the excerpt below. Find it by searching "wireless" at
