Gossips readers may remember the controversial proposal by Verizon to install communications equipment on the roof of Providence Hall. After a review that went on for more than a year, the Planning Board finally granted site plan approval but not without a number of conditions.
In July 2021, Verizon sued the City because of the "unreasonable, unenforceable and arbitrary and capricious" conditions the Planning Board had imposed, for dragging out the review of the project, and for the "exorbitant fees" the Planning Board had exacted from Verizon in escrow payments for the consultant who advised the Planning Board in this matter. The lawsuit was settled in November 2021. In the settlement, Condition 5 of the Planning Board's site plan approval, which required that the final plan for a stealthing structure around the antennae be approved by an architect chosen by the Planning Board, was amended to require that approval be granted within thirty days of submitting the design for review.
This is the rendering of the stealthing structure that was presented to the Planning Board during its review process.
I will be opening a ministry in that space. The stealthing apparatus will be the steeple.
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