Reference Library

Personal Wireless Service Facilities

• General Resources
  • Chapter 12-K Deployment of Personal Wireless Service Facilities
  • Telecommunication Facility Site Description form
  • New Hampshire Wireless Communications Towers Map (To display cell towers, click the "visible" check box next to "Utilities & Telecommunications" in the Layer Menu on the right side of the page, then click the yellow "Apply" button. To get information about each tower, select the "active" check box, click the "Apply" button, then click on a tower.)
  • "Planning for Wireless Telecommunications" OEP Technical Bulletin 14 (Spring 2001) (updated Fall 2006)
  • Telecommunication Consultants  as of September 7, 2005
  • Neil Nevins & a. v. New Hampshire Department of Resources and Economic Development & a. Argued: November 14, 2001 Decided: March 11, 2002 (Case involving the communications tower on Mt. Kearsarge)
  • "Have any ZBA’s dealt with variances for cell phone towers?", Plan-link Q & A, June 16, 2006
  • "Federal Court Upholds Only One of Five Reasons to Deny Cell Tower Permit", USCOC of New Hampshire, RSA #2, Inc., (dlb/a US Cellular) v. City of Franklin, New Hampshire Town and City, March 2006
  • FCC fact Sheet: Over-the-Air Reception Devices Rule - Preemption of Restrictions on Placement of Direct Broadcast Satellite, Broadband Radio Service, and Television Broadcast Antennas
• Disguising Cell Phone Towers, Planetizen
• NH Division of Historical Resources "Section 106" review forms:
  • "Section 106" Review and Compliance Information Cover Sheet 
  • Criteria  For Evaluating The Effect Of Telecommunications Projects On Historical Resources
  • Supplemental  "Section 106" Review Materials For Telecommunications Projects
• Photos:
  • Stealth Tree - Amherst, NH
  • Water Tower Mount - Amherst, NH
  • Flush Mounted Monopole - Bedford, NH
  • Flush Mounted Monopole - Bedford, NH
  • Stealth Tree (top) - Dublin, NH
  • Stealth Tree - Dublin, NH
  • Chimney Mount - Exeter, NH
  • Stealth Firetower Facility (at a distance) - Hollis, NH
  • Stealth Firetower Facility - Hollis, NH
  • Stealth Flagpole - Hudson, NH
  • Church Steeple - Hudson, NH
  • Pinnacle Hill "monopole pine" (at a distance) - New Hampton, NH
  • Pinnacle Hill "monopole pine" (closeup) - New Hampton, NH
  • Pinnacle Hill "monopole pine" (detail) - New Hampton, NH
  • Brownstick - Raymond, NH
  • Stealth Tree - Windham, NH
• Models:
  • Model Telecommunications Facilities Ordinance  Prepared by Carol Ogilvie, Senior Planner, Southwest Region Planning Commission, Keene, NH
  • Application For Telecommunications Conditional Use Permit  Prepared by Carol Ogilvie, Senior Planner, Southwest Region Planning Commission, Keene, NH
  • "Meeting the Challenges of Zoning in The Information Age: Planning for Wireless Communications Facilities" Timothy J. Thompson, Ball State University Department of Urban Planning, Undergraduate Thesis, April 28, 1997
• Examples of town and city regulations: (Call the office for additional examples depending on your specific needs. You are advised to check with each municipality directly to confirm that the example listed here is the most recent version. Also, see the listing from the Municipal Land Use Regulation database as of 1/25/07.)
  • Amherst 
  • Ashland 
  • Canterbury 
  • Concord 
  • Cornish 
  • Danbury 
  • Durham 
  • East Kingston
  • Francestown 
  • Grantham 
  • Greenfield 
  • Hampton Falls 
  • Hanover 
  • Lyndeborough 
  • Madison 
  • Meredith 
  • Mont Vernon 
  • North Hampton 
  • Rochester 
• Web resources (these links will send you to web sites out of the control of the Office of Energy and Planning)
  • BBC news article How mobile phone masts ‘vanish’
  • The Larson Company Camouflage Division
  • PlannersWeb (Planning Commissioners Journal) Issue #28: Fall 1997, Focus on Wireless Towers

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