The Stowe Selectmen will be discussing the proposed North Hill Cell Tower next Tuesday. We have been told that this will be on the Agenda at 5:45pm, Tuesday, October 13th. Akeley Memorial Building. Please come to this meeting to hear what is going on and have your voice heard.

Yesterday we wrote about some of the discussion we heard from Verizon last Monday in Waterbury. We also heard from the state, and it was not pretty. Dan Burke, who is a lawyer for the Public Service Department spoke at length about the process for approving cell towers.

Dan described a "Quasi-Judicial" process that has strict deadlines, tries to restrict public input to "statutory parties" and grants public hearings at the Public Service Boards discretion. Hopefully Dan will be there Tuesday to answer questions. What we do know is that Stowe is NOT a statutory party, and that citizen appeals for a public hearing do not have to be granted. We also know that there is a strong bias to approve these types of applications.

Before we throw up our hands and say "there is nothing we can do", we should note that this will not be the last time the State of Vermont runs a process rough-shod over a town and its citizen's sensibilities. Besides cell towers, and lord know we will need more, we are talking solar panels and wind turbines. We need to start pushing back.

The North Hill Cell Tower was some two years in the planning, without the public knowing about it. Now we are told that there is nothing we can do. This is wrong on many dimensions, and it won't stop here.

Please come to the meeting on Tuesday. Get more information at www.savenorthhill.com Sign the petition, post a comment.

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