School Board Bans Cell Towers on Campuses

5g cell tower drawn on school chalk board with a red X overlayed on the tower

Purcellville, VA: The School Board voted 8-0-1 on Tuesday to prohibit the construction of new cell phone towers on school ground for the next five years.

Anne Donohue (At-Large) abstained from the vote. She said she was concerned with the blanket prohibition of the towers and felt decisions by the board on a case-by-case basis would be better.

“The cell phone towers bring in tens or thousands of dollars of revenue to our division every year. Limiting additional cell phone towers on our school property could have a detrimental effect on connectivity for cell phones or wireless access in our LCPS facilities, which could have other harmful effects for our students and our staff and I am generally constrained about limiting the future authority of this board in this way,” she said.

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