The telecommunications committee that would not die still has problems with Croton's proposed law on cell towers. Will it foster the best coverage for the village? [Updated May 9]

This evening the Board of Trustees will pick up the process of passing a telecommunications law after cancelling a public hearing last month. Does it still privilege village owned property?

The cell tower at Croton-Harmon station/ Photo by Michael Balter

We have reported a couple of times now on the Croton Board of Trustees’s efforts to pass a new telecommunications law in anticipation of improvements in our communications infrastructure, especially the possible construction of new cell towers. As part of this process, Mayor Brian Pugh and the Board appointed a Telecommunication Advisory Committee (TAC) to help figure out the best solutions. As we also reported, the TAC, which had expressed unanimous concern about the direction the Board seemed to be going—allegedly adopting legislation that would privilege village owned land over private land even if constructing towers on private land might provide better coverage—more or less refused to disband after its work was supposedly done, and has continued to meet and analyze the proposed legislation.