You’ve seen the “Stop the Tower” placards posted near the Algonquin Trail, and even Arnprior Council is up in arms over what appears to be an arbitrary and ill-conceived site for a proposed Rogers cellular tower location in Town.
Mayor Walter Stack says while these decisions are the federal government’s to make, they have sloughed responsibility off to a series of peer-review studies rather than doing one of their own.
Stack notes that municipalities have been given a modicum of input to cell tower locations since 2014, where before they had none.
The Mayor doesn’t like the secrecy over who owns the land the cell tower is planned to go on, because some very discouraged neighbours would like to bend their ear.
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by Rick Stow