The North Carolina Senate passed a bill that would require local ...
The North Carolina Senate passed a bill that would require local governments to rule within 45 days on certain types of wireless tower construction permit applications. SB-831 also would limit local reviews to issues of public safety, land use…
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and zoning. Local governments wouldn’t be allowed to seek information on wireless demand or service quality, and couldn’t require that facilities be installed on municipally-owned property. Municipalities would be allowed to make tower applicants study the feasibility of installing facilities on existing structures unless clear contractual, economic or engineering problems impede. Municipalities would have to notify applicants of deficiencies in their petitions within 45 days for collocation applications and within 60 days on new towers. Collocation applications would have to be decided within 45 days of being declared complete. New towers would have to be decided in a time frame reasonably consistent with decision intervals for other types of land-use permits.