The Jacksonville, FL city council voted to test new tougher rules for erecting cellular phone towers.
"For the next 120 days, city officials will test new rules designed to make it tougher to build the kind of communication towers that thousands of Jacksonville residents use to power their mobile phones. "This is really about the vision of our community, how we want our city to look," Council President Alberta Hipps said. "I don't want District 13 [the district she represents on the Westside] to end up looking like a porcupine." At the same time, city officials know that cell towers are much needed by a public ever more dependent on wireless technology to work and play -- and ever more impatient with busy signals and dead spots in areas with too few or overloaded towers."
Thanks to Christian Peralta
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