Public Hearing: Telecommunications Towers –Limited & Conditional Use
The Council conducted a hearing in 2019 where two dozen County residents testified to register STRONG disapproval of the ZTA. Of the scant number who spoke in favor of the ZTA, most of them had ties to the wireless industry (lobbyists and outside lawyers).
Entire Public Hearing Video:
Speaker highlights from the public hearing: (The below YouTube videos will open at a bookmark to the listed speaker.)
- Debbie Spielburg – representing the County Executive
- Jeffrey Slavin – Mayor of Somerset
- Peter Kovar – Takoma Park City Council
- Robert Janku – Clear Montgomery Clear Vista
- Daniel Waclawiw – Individual
- Molly Hauk – Individual
- Susan Kahn – Individual
- Anna Pritchard – Individual
- Laura Simon – Individual
- Rick Meyer – President, Montgomery County Coalition for Control of Cell Towers
- Donna Baron – Individual
- Harriet Quinn – Montgomery County Civic Federation
- Sue Present – Individual
- Katherine Katzin – Individual
- Theodora Scarato – Executive Director, Environmental Health Trust
- Janice Smith – Individual
- Cynthia Baughman- Individual
- Anna Olsson – Individual
- Sussannah Goodman – Individual
- Donald Bellenger – Westleigh Homeowners Association
- Cynthia Erville – Individual
- Sally Zimmerman – Individual
- Vicki Huo – Individual
- Collen Cordes – Community Vision for Takoma (Additional Testimony here)
- Fiona Morrissey – Individual