T-Mobile antennas planned near US60 east of Apache Junction
Pinal County
T-Mobile equipment is to be added to the utility pole at the Carrel Substation on 32nd Avenue east of South Mountain View Road on the most-eastern of two poles in front of the substation.
Pinal County
T-Mobile equipment is to be added to the utility pole at the Carrel Substation on 32nd Avenue east of South Mountain View Road on the most-eastern of two poles in front of the substation.
Pinal County
The new wireless communications facility is to be attached to an existing Salt River Project utility pole.
A permit recently was approved for a wireless communications facility on a 75-foot-tall pole northeast of South Mountain View Road and U.S. Highway 60 in an unincorporated area of Pinal County east of Apache Junction,
The Pinal County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Dec. 18 to approve a special-use permit for the facility on a 2.5-acre parcel.
The owner and applicant is Salt River Project. The new wireless communications facility is to be attached to an existing utility pole, Senior Planner Glenn Bak told the board.
“Items of consideration (are) enhanced coverage needs for the AJ area, this would be placed on an existing pole so no new pole needed or anything. Traffic impacts are of course minimal and no letters of opposition were received,” he said.
T-Mobile equipment is to be added to the utility pole at the Carrel Substation on 32nd Avenue east of South Mountain View Road on the most-eastern of two poles in front of the substation, SRP official Ashley Scott told the board.
It will have a 4-foot-wide array with two antennas per sector. All ground equipment will be behind a wall at the substation and screened from view, she said.
Richard H. Dyer can be reached at rdyer@iniusa.org, or on X @rhdyer. To voice your opinion on this story, connect with us at AzOpinions@iniusa.org.
Meet Richard Richard Dyer has worked at Independent Newsmedia Inc. USA since 1987, starting his career in Apache Junction as a copy editor and being promoted over the years to work as the editor of the Mesa Independent, news services editor for the East Valley office in Apache Junction, managing editor for the East Valley office, news services editor for the East Valley office and eventually also for the newspapers at INI’s then-Chandler office, managing editor again and as a news editor covering Apache Junction/Gold Canyon and Queen Creek. He helped start the Florence Independent while the news editor covering Apache Junction and Mesa news. In January 2023, he became associate managing editor for the East Valley newspapers and in August 2023 became managing editor for the East Valley newspapers of Chandler/Tempe, Gilbert, Queen Creek, Florence, Mesa and Apache Junction/Gold Canyon, while also reporting on Mesa and Apache Junction/Gold Canyon.
Community: Since 2009, he has worked as a volunteer to design The Blue Guitar Magazine, Blue Guitar Jr. magazine and Unstrung magazine, which are projects of The Arizona Consortium for the Arts; and since 2014, has been overseeing the art submissions.
Education: University of Arizona with a master of arts in journalism and a bachelor of science in agricultural communication. Also continuing education at Mesa Community College in welding in a metal art sculpture class.
Random fact: Saw his first tornado on May 31, 2010, which was classified as an EF-2, as part of a stormchasing tour group.
Hobbies: He is an artist of welded-steel sculptures, selling his artwork at juried and non-juried art shows.
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