VERGENNES TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — Lowell-area neighbors are split over the approval of a cellphone tower that would be installed in a rural residential area not far from a historical district.
Some of them have filed an appeal with the Vergennes Township Board of Appeals to stop that tower from going up.
The roughly 200-foot Verizon tower, which was approved by the Vergennes Township Board in February, is the source of both frustration and excitement for neighbors.
Some residents who live nestled in the woods say it will encroach on their rural lifestyle.
“Even here, we don’t have street lights, even,” neighbor Cara Debbaudt said. “We have nothing. It’s dark skies. It’s beautiful. We have tons of nature and that’s something that a lot of us moved out here for.”
“It’s going to be probably at least 100 feet above the trees. You’re going to see it from the covered bridge, one of three covered bridges in Michigan,” she continued.
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