{"id":9522,"date":"2024-02-05T00:26:57","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T05:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=9522"},"modified":"2024-02-05T07:42:56","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T12:42:56","slug":"verizon-proposes-another-season-of-temporary-cell-tower-on-barrier-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2024\/02\/verizon-proposes-another-season-of-temporary-cell-tower-on-barrier-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Verizon Proposes Another Season of Temporary Cell Tower on Barrier Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9523\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/rt_35_cell_towrt_1079-scaled.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9523\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13626\" src=\"https:\/\/lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/rt_35_cell_towrt_1079-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"3131 Route 35 North, the location of a proposed temporary wireless tower, April 2023. (Photo: Daniel Nee\/Shorebeat)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9523\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">3131 Route 35 North, the location of a proposed temporary wireless tower, April 2023. (Photo: Daniel Nee\/Shorebeat)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Verizon officials have proposed to continue the usage of a temporary cellular communications tower at the site of a private business along Route 35 in the the North Beach portion of Toms River.<\/p>\n<p>Cellco Partnership, the holding company that oversees Verizon&#8217;s mobile towers, is requesting approval from the township&#8217;s planning board to re-install a temporary, 70-foot tall, ballast-mounted wireless telecommunications tower along with related equipment at ground level at 3131 Route 35 North, a marine repair business and boat yard. A similar tower has been utilized at the site since the summer of 2021. The tower would be in operation between May 1, 2024 and Oct. 31, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The application before the planning board only mentions the North Beach tower. It does not state whether a controversial temporary tower <a href=\"https:\/\/lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com\/2023\/05\/new-cell-tower-goes-up-in-ortley-and-residents-noticed-heres-the-whole-story\/\">installed at the pickleball facility<\/a> last summer would return, thought that tower was approved on an emergency basis and was never the subject of a planning board hearing. A separate temporary tower that had been in place for several seasons above a condominium on the oceanfront at First Avenue in Ortley Beach has since <a href=\"https:\/\/lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com\/2023\/10\/permanent-small-cell-wireless-antennas-approved-in-ortley-beach\/\">received approval to be converted to a permanent tower<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Route 35 tower will require the same variances to be granted by the board as in previous years, including a front-yard setback of less than 20 feet, a side yard setback of 6-feet where 10 is required, an operations waiver and permission to utilize the existing curbing and sidewalk instead of replacing it.<\/p>\n<p>The hearing will be held Feb. 21, 2024, at 6 p.m. in the council chambers at the township municipal complex on Washington Street.<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2024\/02\/verizon-proposes-another-season-of-temporary-cell-tower-on-barrier-island\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verizon officials have proposed to continue the usage of a temporary cellular communications tower at the site of a private business along Route 35 in the the North Beach portion of Toms River. Cellco Partnership, the holding company that oversees Verizon&#8217;s mobile towers, is requesting approval from the township&#8217;s planning board to re-install a temporary, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[370,1554,1080,356,11,1553],"class_list":["post-9522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-barrier-island","tag-cell-tower","tag-featured","tag-planning-board","tag-toms-river-nj-news","tag-verizon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/rt_35_cell_towrt_1079-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}