T-Mobile Asks For A Delay

The meeting scheduled for tonight has been canceled, officials said.

The township planning office said T-Mobile, which wants to build a cellular telephone antenna on Old Mill Road, requested a delay. The application’s new hearing date is Jan. 18, 2012.

The T-mobile application -- which targets a parcel of land at 1817 Old Mill Rd. -- was the only slated for the meeting, which was then canceled, according to the planning office.

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That application faced stiff opposition from neighbors, many of whom said the proposed tower was too close to the flight path of banner planes using the nearby Monmouth Executive Airport.

T-Mobile representatives were unable to convince the board that the tower would pose no danger, despite providing evidence from the Federal Aviation Administration and the Department of Transportation’s Division of Aeronautics that the tower would not impede air traffic from the neighboring airport.

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