Feb 15, 2012 12:55 PM
Southampton Town Planning Board Chairman Dennis Finnerty at the board’s meeting on Thursday night. ERIN MCKINLEY
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An East Quogue resident attending last week’s Southampton Town Planning Board hearing on T-Mobile’s application to build a 100-foot-tall cellphone tower in the hamlet thinks the local fire district should drop the carrier altogether if it wishes to improve communications between emergency responders.
Resident Don Bouchard suggested that the East Quogue Fire District investigate whether or not it can attach its emergency antennae, which fire officials have stated is needed to eliminated dead zones that sometimes make it difficult for firefighters and EMTs to communicate, to a 152-foot-tall tower owned by Cablevision and located north of Sunrise Highway, off Central Boulevard. Mr. Bouchard thinks that a communications antenna could be attached to the existing tower, and said that calls made to Cablevision have indicated that it would be “amenable to an... more
Resident Don Bouchard suggested that the East Quogue Fire District investigate whether or not it can attach its emergency antennae, which fire officials have stated is needed to eliminated dead zones that sometimes make it difficult for firefighters and EMTs to communicate, to a 152-foot-tall tower owned by Cablevision and located north of Sunrise Highway, off Central Boulevard. Mr. Bouchard thinks that a communications antenna could be attached to the existing tower, and said that calls made to Cablevision have indicated that it would be “amenable to an... more
...except in the fall zone, of course.
"quality of life" is subjective. please don't imply that you're speaking for everyone when voicing your own opinion.
"kiss my butt" : kiss my butt
"look like trees" - what level of similarity are you willing to accept? you could be asking to little if you're willing to settle for representations of the real thing.
no on hugs a cell tower
Approve the towers.
What I find more objectionable is that fire siren - that loud, annoying, outdated, ...more antiquated notification system. If that doesn't destroy a community's quality of life, what does? But, it does saves lives and when they were put up, boy did they cause a community fire storm.
Sometimes, and for the public good, things need to move forward to better humanity - like this communications tower. Listening to the likes of civic leaders like Al A and other negative combatants, it simply irritating.
Can't have things both ways with mobile phones. Just like when you issue building permits by the ream for decades while refusing to upgrade roads and infrastructure for "environmental" reasons, you can't complain about traffic jams.
Has anyone asked us about a new antenna? NO.
I do believe we as a community would prefer an antenna over a cell phone tower.
I believe we as a community would be able to raise the necessary funds for this too. And wouldn't that be a wonderful ...more thing? People getting together, working for a common goal, neighbor helping neighbor. Think about it?
Approve the tower at the fire house1