Yorktown Adopts Cell Tower Moratorium

The Town Board has adopted a six-month moratorium on cell phone towers.

The moratorium gives Town officials time to reject applications for new cell towers while they consider changes to Town ordinances that regulate cell phone towers.

“Our idea is to rewrite the cell tower law during this moratorium,” said Supervisor Ed Lachterman at a July 7 Town Board meeting. “There are two major issues that I feel we need to address, which is the distance from the homes and the invasion on wetlands, and especially the classification of those wetlands.”

The moratorium follows the Town Board’s denial of a new cell phone tower at 62 Granite Springs Road earlier this year. Many residents objected to the proposed cell tower on the grounds that it was out of place in the neighborhood and had a negative environmental footprint.