Schools to lease land for phone towers

Baltimore County school administrators plan to lease school property to phone companies to construct cell towers, alarming some community activists who say they knew nothing of the plans until they were approved.

Randallstown residents are appealing the school system?s agreement to lease property on the Randallstown High School campus to the parent company of T-Mobile, Omnipoint Communications, next week. They said they hope to block an agreement that allows the company to construct a 110-foot tower on top of a light pole near the school?s tennis court.