BANGOR DAILY NEWS • March 15, 2021
For the past year, Rockland has been immersed in a legal battle with a developer that wishes to build a 120-foot cellphone tower on Route 1. Rockland ultimately settled with the developer to allow the tower to be built, but the Planning Board is pushing back on the settlement agreement. The city is now at risk of being held in contempt of court. The intricacy of the conflict in Rockland demonstrates that controlling the development of cellphone towers at the local level can be difficult because the federal regulations may supersede local rules for the telecommunications industry.