The Planning Board received a letter from Industrial Communications, the company that has been pushing to construct a new cell phone tower on property off of Jane Lane. The letter states that the company plans to conduct a new balloon test, which would offer the residents of Mattapoisett a chance to see the visual impact the new 145-foot tower would have on the landscape.
The previous balloon test was held on a Friday afternoon for four hours, at a time when most residents were out of town working. The Planning Board felt that the test was unfair and inadequate and requested Industrial Communications fly another test over the course of two days, where the balloon would be visible most of the day.
The company plans to hold the new test on Friday, September 14, 2012 to Saturday, September 15, 2012 from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm each day.
In other business, the Mattapoisett Planning Board approved the division of a parcel of land on Oakland Street, one that currently has two existing dwellings.
“When you have two houses on the same lot, you can split it in half, according to the law,” said Planning Board member John Mathieu.
About two years ago, Nancy J. Perry and Louis F. Klein, Jr. approached the Board with a plan to cut the parcel into two divisions, allowing a dwelling to remain on each subdivision. They also planned to raze one dwelling to construct a new home that would utilize an existing garage on the property. The Board unanimously approved the plans as presented.
The next meeting of the Mattapoisett Planning Board will be on Monday, August 6, 2012, at 7:00 pm at the Town Hall.
By Eric Tripoli
Please let’s support the proposed cell phone tower in Mattapoisett. Everyone I have spoken to in town have had trouble with dropped calls or no service at all, especially along Route 6. So many of us no longer have land lines and depend on uninterrupted service with our cell phones.