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VOLUME 36 • NUMBER 38 • AUGUST 9, 2018
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GV police get award, council considers grass height rules One cell tower equipment case resolved, one deferred On the agenda for the Aug. 6, Greenwood Village City Council was a request to amend an existing special use permit at Greenwood Community Church (GCC) to allow five feet of building height above the maximum allowed under the zoning code for new cellular
equipment for T-Mobile West, LLC. Council heard from representatives of T-Mobile that they needed to add the additional height to six pilasters sitting atop the church at Belleview and Holly so as to install new eight-foot by one-foot antennas inside five of the pilasters (the sixth was being changed for architectural consistency). They explained that the current antennas, installed 18 years ago, were
no longer adequate to provide good service to GV customers and were causing interference in the T-Mobile network all the way to Lakewood. Several council members asked if there were other options. Councilman Dave Bullock asked T-Mobile if they would accept a requirement that they design their equipment such that the pilasters could also accommodate another carrier as a condition of approving
the five-foot height variance from the zoning code. Annie Mackiewicz, representing TMobile, politely explained that they could not agree to such a condition without knowing the size and type of equipment the other carrier would be using or whether the other signal would interfere with T-Mobile’s. City attorney Tonya HaasDavidson interrupted the proceedings to point out to the council that this was not a tele-
communications case, it was a special use permit amendment, and that it had to be decided based upon the applicable criteria set forth in the law and listed in the staff report for council’s use. Council members who were at the meeting voted to approve the request to increase the height of the building 5 feet above what was permitted in the Continued on page 10