Rehoboth Beach, DE hired a consultant to help city leaders navigate upcoming wireless deployment. During a commissioners meeting August 20, Mayor Stan Mills announced the hiring of CTC Technology & Energy as the city’s wireless consultant, reported the Cape Gazette. Also last month, City Manager Sharon Lynn announced the hiring of Rehoboth’s first city planner during a commissioner’s meeting.
Mills said CTC was hired to help the city evaluate proposals submitted by wireless communication companies like Verizon and AT&T. It’s the same consultant hired by nearby Dewey Beach for the same job, Mills said.
CTC will evaluate all wireless applications submitted to the city. Hiring the Maryland-based company was spurred by an application from Verizon, because the city has been going back and forth with the company for years on the proposed look and possible location of antennas on or near the boardwalk, according to the Cape Gazette.
For a time, the proposal was to replace more than a dozen lights on the eastern edge of the boardwalk, but no good way to hide all the wiring was presented, according to the account. More recently, the working proposal placed a dozen antennas on the western edge of the boardwalk.
CTC is expected to make a presentation during the commissioner’s workshop today, September 8, according to Mills. The consultancy is also expected to also have an initial review of Verizon’s boardwalk antennas and of the city’s wireless code.
Reader Interactions