Verizon Wireless dropped plans to build a cellphone tower in Tale...
Verizon Wireless dropped plans to build a cellphone tower in Talent, Ore., to fill in a coverage gap, after neighbors successfully opposed a zoning variance for the 45- ft. tower, it said. Verizon is looking at other sites now…
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that the city has turned down the variance and Verizon unsuccessfully appealed to Jackson County and the Ore. Land Use Board of Appeals, it said. The tower needed a variance because it would within 200 ft. of neighboring properties. Two Suncrest Road neighbors fought the tower’s proximity, saying having a cellphone tower almost in their back yards would devalue their properties. Verizon has no plans to turn to the courts and will instead seek another site for the tower, intended to close a coverage gap between the towns of Medford and Ashland, it said.