A controversial proposal to build a cell-phone tower on the grounds of Julius West Middle School has gotten new momentum, withonly the superintendent left to rule.
Rockville’s mayor and planning board members had denied the request from T-Mobile to erect a 50-foot tower on the school’s campus, yet the city’s appeals board this week overturned that decision, in essence resuscitating what seemed to be a dead issue.
So far, cell-phone towers have been built on the sites of nine current Montgomery County schools and one future school site.
On average, the vendors renting cell-phone towers at the schools pay about $2,000 a month. One-third of that total goes to the upkeep of the tower, one-third to the host school and one-third to the schools that feed into the host facility.
