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“I don’t have the time or the staff to
respond to rumors like that,” he said.
Ordinarily, Eyster said, the city
planning department that handles
zoning proposals such as Sprint’s
would hold a public meetingin which
site neighbors could voice their input.
If the cellular-phone site proposal ad
vances to that step, he said, that is
when Housing would get involved.
At this point, he said he does not
know enough about cellular-phone
towers to make a definitive state
ment as to whether he would sup
port the Villard Street site proposal.
“My initial reaction is that I would
I have serious reservations to the
plan,” he said.
ASUO Vice President Joy Nair
said the student government has no
plans to begin an active campaign,
and the issue should be decided by
the students.
“If this is something the students
want, we’re going to support them,”
she said.
Bob Mitchell, the general manag
er at the Williams Bakery on 13th
Street, said the company has been
negotiating with Sprint but has not
heard from the cellular-phone com
pany for two or three months.
He said if the city planning de
partment approves Sprint’s request,
Williams Bakery will go ahead with
the deal.
“It’s pretty much in their hands,”
he said.
Dave Mellin, a spokesman for
Sprint, confirmed that the company
has been going through the zoning
process at the site since March 2. A fi
nal decision on the site is not likely to
be reached until August, he said.
f Jessie Swimeley Emerald
Zach Visnanorf, the ‘Moss Street Defender,’ talks with Mark Bruer, the project manager of Essex General Construction. Bruer and his crew
are currently using the house and property where a cellular-phone tower might be placed.
If the site is approved, Mellin said
Sprint will make every effort possi
ble to ensure that the tower is not an
eyesore to the neighborhood. He said
the proposed tower would be paint
ed green and resemble a flagpole.
“We really try to bend over back
wards in a lot of ways to make sure our
sites blend into the natural surround
ings as much as possible,” he said.
QWEST and Voicestream Wireless
already own cellular-phone towers
atop Prince Lucien Campbell Hall.
University Telecom manager Dave
Barta said Telecom Services has no
plans to place more on campus.
But some neighborhood residents
remain skeptical about the tower.
Karl Wagenknecht, a dentist who
has an office nearby, said he thinks
many important questions remain
regarding the safety and aesthetics
of the proposed tower.
He said he would like to see the
company choose a site not located
in the middle of a residential or
commercial area, such as one locat
ed on a freeway overpass or. on top
of a high building. The planners of
the tower should consider how
they would feel if a cellular-phone
tower were built next to where they
worked or lived, he said.
“They probably wouldn’t want it
next to them,” he said. “And we
don’t want it next to us.”
The final decision on the Sprint
site may arrive after another site re
quest tor a cellular-phone tower,
made by Verizon Wireless Inc., is
taken care of, said Jerry Jacobson, a
Eugene land-use permits manager.
Verizon Wireless is appealing the
denial of its application to build a
cellular-phone tower in the parking
lot of the Travelodge motel off
Franklin Boulevard.
If that appeal is granted, Jacobson
said, a city regulation will bar Sprint
from putting up a tower on the Villard
site. The city prohibits placing cellu
lar-phone towers within 2,000 feet of
each other, he said. A hearing on the
Verizon appeal is set for July 27.
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