T-Mobile suggests constructing 100-foot telecom towers in the Maplewood neighborhood in Coral Springs

Coral Springs, Florida – At its meeting on Monday, the city’s planning and zoning board is considering T-Mobile’s proposal to install a new cell phone tower in the Maplewood community of Coral Springs that is ten stories high and disguised as a pine tree.

On land held by the Coral Springs Improvement District, at 10300 NW 11th Manor, just off of Ramblewood Drive, the company plans to construct the tower and a 2,500-square-foot structure to house the necessary equipment.

On the 26-acre property, the district runs a water utility facility. According to city documentation, the planned skyscraper would be located on the southeast side.

The board is being advised by city planners to approve the proposal, which will subsequently be presented to the city commission for a public hearing on March 5.

Parks and single-family and multifamily communities would be around the proposed tower.

To the north of the site is the single-family home community known as Maplewood. An 80-foot canal, the Lakewood Village apartments, and the Harbor Luxury Rentals are all to the south.

Maplewood Elementary School and Richard D. Petrillo Park are located on the east side of the proposed tower. According to city documentation, there is a canal and Cypress Park to the west.
According to city officials, the planned skyscraper will be roughly 650 feet from Maplewood and 180 feet from the nearest units to the south.

According to them, a planned concrete block wall and vegetation will screen all of the ground equipment.

According to the documentation that company officials provided to the city, the T-Mobile cellular network has system performance problems in some areas of Coral Springs.

According to them, one of these zones generally stretches from Coral Springs Drive to the west to University Drive to the east, and from NW 16th Street to the north to Riverside Drive to the south.

Slow data speeds, unsuccessful attempts, and an excessive number of dropped connections are examples of performance problems. They also stated that the signal levels along Ramblewood Drive, Atlantic Boulevard, and the neighborhoods west of University Drive are insufficient for high-speed data.

“The distances from the existing tower facilities and cell phone users in this area prevent the existing T-Mobile facilities from providing these services through expansion or upgrade,” company officials stated.

On Monday, the zoning and planning board meets at city hall at 6:30 p.m.