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Request to halt CUP co -application with Verizon <br />to allow for citywide special public meeting <br />July 23, 2018 <br />To: Mayor Dennis Walsh <br />City Administrator Dustin Rief <br />Orono City Council <br />Orono Planning Commision <br />Orono Park Commission <br />We, citizens of Orono, surrounding areas, and park supporters, are requesting that the <br />city's co-applicaton with Verizon for the placement of cell towers at the Orono Public <br />Golf Course and French Creek Preserve and any other location, park or city -owned <br />property be halted until a special meeting can be scheduled for public discussion and <br />citywide notification. <br />Scheduling a public meeting at the Planning Commision level only notifies residents <br />within 500 feet of the proposed sites. Of the hundreds of residents and park goers we <br />have talked to ... none had any idea of the potential co -application. <br />A decision of this magnitue without a citywide special hearing would forever change <br />our parks for decades to come. All citizens need to hear what the staff and official's <br />position is before the city officially applies for cell towers with Verizon. <br />We request that the city council, at their next council meeting on August 13th <br />discuss — as an agenda item — this issue of having a citywide special public hearing. <br />Thank you in advance. <br />Janie Delaney and Claudia Whiteley <br />on behalf of 152 petitioners <br />