The U.S. Supreme Court recently issued a decision in T-Mobile South LLC v. City of Roswell, which involved the city’s denial of a cell tower application. The Court held that the federal Telecommunications Act mandates that municipalities provide a written explanation when denying a request, and that the explanation must
A New Jersey federal judge recently ruled that the borough of Paramus’s zoning board improperly denied Sprint Spectrum L.P. and T-Mobile USA Inc.’s application to build a wireless tower. U.S. District Judge Kevin McNulty specifically held that the municipality could not deny the application for a monopole wireless tower based
Cell phone towers have become the latest “not in my backyard” issue for New Jersey municipalities. In two recent cases, the New Jersey Superior Court considered whether the requirement that a cell phone carrier seek a least intrusive site from a community impact standpoint continue unabated where a municipality had
