WILTON – Planning Board members found preliminary applications for two communications towers and a final plan for a five-lot subdivision complete Thursday.
Bob Berry of Main-Land Development Consultants representing developer Adam Mack, provided a revised plan for a Village View Street subdivision that had four house lots sharing two driveways and a fifth with its own, for a total of three drives rather than the originally proposed five. The board voted at its last meeting to waive a section of the town’s ordinance requiring a new subdivision to provide a single entry road. Mack does not intend to develop the five sites himself but to sell them individually for house lots.
The board voted unanimously to find the application complete with Charles Lavin voting as an alternate and Keith Swett, Irv Faunce and Sheryl Mosher absent.
About a half dozen residents interested in two communication tower proposals were present but stayed silent. The six or so left when the tower issues were put to rest.
Representing Spectrum Resources Towers, Maureen Hopkins from ATC Realty in Portland presented preliminary plans for the two towers. She said Spectrum currently owns 80 sites in the state and have several more in development, including towers in Dixfield and Rumford. Spectrum, which builds and leases tower space to wireless phone providers, anticipates the new towers to provide better cell phone coverage along the Route 2 corridor. Both the Wilton towers accommodate up to six providers, Hopkins said.
Both sites, on private property, will utilize 100 square feet surrounded by an eight-foot chain-link fence topped with barbed wire and include shaded timed or motion-sensitive lights on small shed-like buildings and will have locked gated access roads for which public safety officials will have keys.
A 190-foot-tall tower proposed for Eileen Caffrey’s property at 436 Munson Road will require a 12-foot-wide 400-foot-long access road. The tower will be a single gray pole about 4 feet in diameter.
The second tower, proposed for construction on property belonging to James Lecraw at 199 Walker Hill Road, will be a 140-foot-tall three-sided lattice tower about 17 feet per side. The 12-foot-wide access road will be an extension of an existing tote road and be about 1,000 feet long.
The board waived soil surveys for both projects and found the preliminary applications complete. They will be conducting site reviews Saturday and public hearings at their meeting on Jan. 19.
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