{"id":792845,"date":"2019-02-07T21:36:01","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T04:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/lower-blue-planning-commission-oks-cellphone-tower-north-of-silverthorne\/"},"modified":"2019-02-07T21:36:01","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T04:36:01","slug":"lower-blue-planning-commission-oks-cellphone-tower-north-of-silverthorne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/lower-blue-planning-commission-oks-cellphone-tower-north-of-silverthorne\/","title":{"rendered":"Lower Blue Planning Commission OKs cellphone tower north of Silverthorne"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"446\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/Brf-CellTower-SDN-020919-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/Brf-CellTower-SDN-020919-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/Brf-CellTower-SDN-020919-1-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"\/><figcaption>This rendering shows an 85-foot cellphone tower designed to look like a pine tree that could fill in a critical gap in coverage inside a notorious dead zone north of Silverthorne.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The Lower Blue Planning Commission green lighted a proposed cellphone tower Thursday night that could improve coverage in an area notorious for being a dead zone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The new cellphone tower is planned for 3175 Johnson Road, on a hillside above the Blue River Campground off Highway 9, north of Silverthorne in Summit County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">It\u2019s been designed to look like a pine tree, and at 85 feet tall, the new cellphone tower should be on par with the surrounding trees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">It will serve AT&amp;T customers, but the company says in its application that the tower is being designed to accommodate up to three more service providers with 36 additional antennas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Nexius Solutions is working as a consultant for AT&amp;T on the project, and a company representative said construction could start as early as late spring or early summer and AT&amp;T aims to have it fully operational by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Because plan to build the new cellphone tower came with strong local support, is expected to have few impacts on the surrounding landscape, meets county planning goals and had been approved years earlier before that approval expired, the planning commission approved the company\u2019s conditional use permit and site plan application on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Most of the discussion focused on potential impacts to wildlife, agreements to maintain Johnson Road, tower connections, co-location of other service providers and how the new cellphone tower could boost public safety in an area infamous for \u201cNo Service\u201d signals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/lower-blue-planning-commission-oks-cellphone-tower-north-of-silverthorne\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This rendering shows an 85-foot cellphone tower designed to look like a pine tree that could fill in a critical gap in coverage inside a notorious dead zone north of Silverthorne. The Lower Blue Planning Commission green lighted a proposed cellphone tower Thursday night that could improve coverage in an area notorious for being a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-792845","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 17:07:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}