Residents Just Say ‘No’ to Verizon Cell Tower on Ridgeside Water Reservoir

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During the past several months, Monrovia City Staff has been working with representatives from Verizon Wireless, who have requested that the City consider leasing them space to place a cell tower on the water reservoir off of Ridgeside Drive.

Before the City would consider the application, staff informed Verizon Wireless that they would have to do outreach to the neighbors in the area to ascertain issues of concern in the neighborhood.

According to local reports and the City Manager’s notes on the website, “an initial meeting that was hosted by Verizon Wireless a few months ago did not go well. Representatives from Verizon Wireless were late to the meeting and were unable to address some very basic concerns raised by the neighbors off of Ridgeside Drive.”

Following that meeting, the City informed Verizon Wireless that they would not be considering the application unless Verizon “took the outreach process more seriously.”

A subsequent meeting proved that residents were overwhelmingly opposed to a cell tower on the reservoir.

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