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Cell phone service for AT&T customers could improve in some upcounty parks if a cell phone tower extension in Boyds is approved by the county.
The Montgomery County Planning Board voted 3-0 at its Thursday meeting to recommend approval of a special exception to add a 30-foot extension and nine panel antennae to a 120-foot-tall cell phone tower at 14615 Clopper Road. Vice Chairman John Robinson and Commissioner Joe Alfandre were absent. The county Board of Appeals would give final approval.
The existing monopole tower at the 6-acre Remus Hungerford Industrial Yard houses two wireless service providers, according to Planning Board documents. The extension will improve AT&T service on White Ground, Clarksburg and Clopper roads and in the Churchill community, according to the documents, as well as in Little Seneca Stream Valley Park and the adjacent Black Hill Regional Park, said James R. Michal, attorney for applicant AT&T.
The board did not receive testimony on the proposal, which is scheduled to go to the Hearing Examiner on July 7.