A Florida telecom company is looking to build a cell tower on the Riverview Church property in Evans.
Tampa-based SkyWay Towers has applied to rezone two acres at 1238 Furys Ferry Rd. from Single-family Residential (R-1) to Special district zoning (S-1) to make way for a telecommunications facility.
The proposed site would consist of a 150-foot monopole tower, a 4,900-square foot fenced compound with ground equipment, shielded by a six-foot steel fence, and a 30-foot-wide utility easement from Furys Ferry.
According to the narrative SkyWay included with its rezoning application, the tower would be capable of hosting up to three mobile carriers, though the anchor tenant carrier would be T-Mobile.
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The narrative calls the vacant, wooded property, owned by the church, the “best feasible location to maximize coverage, network density and increase network capacity” in a given carrier’s radius. To minimize its affect on the surrounding residential parcels, the tower would be designed with nonreflective galvanized steel finishes, equipped with landscape screening, and will have minimum artificial lighting installed.
In 2022, the county approved a permit for another telecom company, Ignite Wireless, to build a cell tower on a small parcel at the intersection of Baston and Washington roads. A year later, the Board of Commissioners unanimously approved a request by Ignite to rezone the same parcel to allow AT&T to add its carrier equipment. The Planning Commission had voted down that request.
Planning Commission scheduled to vote on the rezoning request at Furys Ferry Road during its Sept. 19 meeting.
Skyler Q. Andrews is a staff reporter covering business for The Augusta Press. Reach him at skyler@theaugustapress.com.
