A few items I wanted to highlight today:
More on the North Hill vs. AT&T showdown. Rick’s Blog reprints a letter from Scott Davis of the North Hill Preservation Association to Council and City staff. The letter is a well-reasoned, legally-grounded argument for oversight of AT&T utility installations in public rights-of-way.
More on the Plaza Ferdinand VII situation. Our friends at the ultra-conservative loopty blog The Lunch Counter encourage citizens to show up…
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A few items I wanted to highlight today:
North Hill residents don’t like AT&T utility cabinets. Well, nobody does, I guess. They’re big and ugly. AT&T was especially careless, though, in its placement of a large cabinet in the right-of-way at the edge of Alabama Square, which is a beautiful little neighbourhood park. There certainly exist alternative locations for the cabinet, but AT&T seems set on taking the easiest road rather than the wisest. The cabinets, called VRADs, have earned AT&T criticism across the country…
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Pensacola City Councilman Sam Hall is reporting that Gulf Power will “delay the line construction of the proposed power line in the Belmont-Devilliers area for further discussions with customers.” Now, I’m not nearly as cranky about this as some of those NHPA and Belmont-Devilliers folks, but the overriding sentiment I have about all this business [...]
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For those of you who didn’t know, Gulf Power is set to begin a project to “upgrade and reroute two-miles of a power line that connects two major substations” in the area around Belmont-Devilliers and North Hill. The “upgrade” involves the installation of “32 [concrete] poles at 100 foot height running from the intersection of [...]
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