Is Unwanted Cell Tower Near a Local Elementary School Secretly a Done Deal? - Granite Grok

Is Unwanted Cell Tower Near a Local Elementary School Secretly a Done Deal?


Blue Sky Tower Site Bedford NH

(NH Political Buzz.org)

To make a long story short (at least for the moment), former Bedford New Hampshire Town Manager Steve Daly entered into an agreement with Crown Castle Towers to lease public property for the placement of a cell tower. Daly never had permission from the Town Council. The zoning board refused to approve the deal. Crown sued the town. A resident filed a civil suit. Daly resigned “for personal reasons.” Crown eventually halted their suit.

The tower was slated for 77 Chubbuck Road, at the town’s transfer station. Petitions were signed opposing it. The locals don’t want it there. Citizens are concerned about the proximity to the Riddle Brook Elementary School. And now that the lawsuit is over more than a few residents probably think the story ended there. It did not.

There is a draft application on file with Bedford Town Manager Rick Sawyer from Blue Sky Towers, LLC for a proposed wireless “facility” at 77 Chubbuck Rd. Verizon Wireless has submitted an RF Report for the site.

Blue Sky does business out of Massachusettes and until recently was named Wireless Realty Advisors, LLC. Earl Duval was listed as the Resident Agent of Wireless Realty Advisors with the Massachusetts Secretary of State, and yes, that is important.

Earl Duval was the Attorney representing Crown Castle/Verizon in the lawsuit over the first Chubbuck Road tower.

Earl Duval is now a signing agent for Blue Sky Towers.

If you take a quick look at the Blue Sky Tower Website, you’ll find one of their tower sites next to the Bedford transfer station (pictured above). The same location rejected by Bedford Residents and the Zoning Board, over which Crown Castle Tower Attorney Earl Duval was suing the town.

How or why does Blue Sky think this is one of their sites? There have been no hearings or presentations, the public has not been consulted, and neither the Council nor zoning board has weighed in on whatever details remain to be added to the incomplete application.

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