New tower application passes muster
Duke Energy received a variance and a special exception for a new communications tower to be located on Oconee nuclear property off SC 130. The county board of zoning appeals cast unanimous votes last night, after a hearing at which no one from the public spoke. Duke will be allowed to extend the height of the tower to 310 feet – 60 feet higher than the county’s height restriction for cell towers. Duke representatives explained should there be a circumstance in which the tower fell it would fall in a folding way and land within the fenced-in property of the plant.