Citing a procedural issue regarding proper notice to abutters and the public, the Mattapoisett Planning Board tabled a hearing for a Special Permit requested by Industrial Tower & Wireless, LLC of Marshfield, MA to construct a 145-foot monopole telecommunications facility within a 100-foot by 100-foot leased area and a 25-foot wide access and utility easement on land owned by Dennis Mahoney & Sons, Inc.
The location of the proposed site has frontage on Route 6, with a town water tank to the east of the property. The tower would be located near Jane Lane, Randall Road, Marion Road and nearby Prospect and Pine Island Roads. One abutter, who told the board that he and his wife were not officially notified of the hearing, attended the meeting.
The proposal, which was available for the public to review at the meeting included a letter from Mattapoisett Chief of Police, Mary Lyons, which endorsed the project and urged the Planning Board to approve the proposal.
“Our (Police Department) existing radio communication has some coverage deficiencies within our town…and Industrial Tower & Wireless has offered the police department free space for an antenna on the top of the tower which should vastly improve our radio communication coverage along Route 6 from the Mattapoisett Police Department to the Marion line and south along Prospect and Aucoot Road including Hollywoods Road and the waterfront. The Mattapoisett Police Department recommends that the Planning Board support the application,” Lyons wrote in the letter to the Planning Board.
In other business, the board approved the division of a vacant parcel of land into two separate non-buildable parcels according to existing ownership percentages. Carolyn Hoye of 52 Prospect Road and abutter, Tweedie agreed to have 1,253 square feet be conveyed to the Tweedie property and the remaining to stay with the Hoye property.
“We want to put up a shed and park on the property,” said Hoye.
The board approved the application.
By Joan Hartnett-Barry