Montgomery County, VA: Planning: Issues: Telecommuncations Towers & Wireless Communication

Telecommunications Towers
& Wireless Communication

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ARTICLES

TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT & RELATED DOCUMENTS

LEGAL RULINGS

ORDINANCES & MATERIALS FROM OTHER LOCALES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

ARTICLES

The Science of Location: Why the Wireless Development Community Needs Geography, Urban Planning, and Architecture. (Anthony M. Townsend, Taub Urban Research Center, NYU, 2001)
"Update on the 1996 Telecommunications Act: Personal Wireless Services" (Stanley D. Abrams, Land Use Law & Zoning Digest, April, 1998)
PLANWIRELESS: Planning Issues Concerning Wireless Communications Towers (Sponsored by Kreines & Kreines, Inc., Kansas City--functions as a watchdog site for the planning issues surrounding telecommunications towers)
"Planning for Cellular Towers" (Ben Campanelli, Planning Commissioner's Journal, 28 [Fall 1997] p.4)
"How the Information Revolution is Shaping Our Communities" (Pamela Blais, Planning Commissioner's Journal, 24 [Fall 1996], p. 16)
WOW: The World of Wireless Communications (Sponsored by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association)
"Local Zoning of Telecommunications FAcilities: Federal Policy Issues." (Adriean E. Herbst, 1997)
"Accommodating New Telecommunications Providers in Public Rights of Way: A View From City Hall" (Timothy X. Sullivan, Paper, Spring 1998 WSAMA Conference)
"The Medina Experience: Federal Court--A New Venue for Zoning Review" (Kirk R. Wines, 1996 WSAMA Conference Presentation.)
"The National Zoning Nanny" (Jonathan Walters, Governing, January 1998)
"Wireless & Wireline: How are Local Governments Faring Under the Telecommunications Act of 1996? A Review of Federal Cases." (Tim Sullivan, Conference Paper, WSAMA Spring 1999 Conference)

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TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT & RELATED DOCUMENTS

HR 952: Allows states and locales to retain authority over the placement, construction, or modification of personal wireless service facilities. (Introduced 3 March 1999; Referred to House subcommittee--30 March 1999; Also known as the Local Zoning Preservation Act of 1999)
Telecommunications Act of 1996 (Pub. LA. No. 104-104, 110 Stat. 56; Updated the Communications Act of 1934))
FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau (government site, provides access to both legislation and implimenting regulations from the federal government).
Federal Communications Commission Notice of Proposed Rule Making in the Matter of Preemption of State and Local Zoning and Land Use Restrictions on the Siting, Placement and Construction of Broadcast Station Transmission Facilities (Adopted, 18 August 1997; Released, 19 August 1997; MM Docket No. 97-182; FCC 97-296)
FCC Digital Television Tower Siting Fact Sheet (5 June 2000)

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LEGAL RULINGS

AT&T v. City of Virginia Beach (4th Circuit Court of Appeals: 97-2389 & 97-2513; CA 97-391-2; Argued 2 June 1998; Decided 1 September 1998; Amicus Curiae by Virginia Association of Counties; Raymond A. Jackson, District Judge).
Town of Amherst, New Hampshire v. Omnipoint Communications Enterprises, Inc. (USCA, 1st Circuit, 98-2061)

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ORDINANCES & MATERIALS FROM OTHER LOCALES

Nashua Regional Planning Commission: Model Telecommunications Facilities Ordinance (New Hampshire, 1998)
Cape Cod Commission: Model Bylaw for Personal Wireless Service Facilities (Massachusetts, 1997)
San Diego Association of Governments "Wireless Communications Facilities Issues Paper"
New Jersey Planning Officials--Wireless.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

George J. Alexander, Antitrust and the Telephone Industry After the Telecommunications Act of 1996, 12 Santa Clara Computer & High Tech. L.J. 227 (1996).
Berge Ayvazian, "The Telecommunications Act of 1996: A Legalized Free-For-All", Yankeewatch, Vol. 11, No. 2. February 1996. The Yankee Group, 440 PLI: Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks, and Literary Property Course Handbook Series 395 (May 6, 1996).
Loftus E. Becker, Comments on "The Telecommunications Act of 1996," by Thomas G. Krattenmaker, 29 Conn. L. Rev. 175 (1996).
Charles Bierbauer, The First Annual Symposium on Media & the Law: How Will the Telecommunications Bill and the Information Superhighway Affect America?, 41 S.D. L. Rev. 502 (1996).
Michael Botein, Cable/Telco Mergers and Acquisitions: Antitrust vs. Telecommunications Act Approaches, 440 PLI: Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks, and Literary Property Course Handbook Series 479 (May 6, 1996).
Michael Botein, The Telecom Reform Act: Who Needs It?, 440 PLI: Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks, and Literary Property Course Handbook Series 473 (1996).
J. Michael Brown, Interconnection, Unbundling and Access: Creating Full Service Competition Under the Telecommunications Act of 1996, AT&T, MCI, LDDS, WORLDCOM and COMPTEL, 440 PLI: Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks, and Literary Property Course Handbook Series 457 (May 6, 1996).
J. Michael Brown, Summary of Key Provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, 440 PLI: Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks, and Literary Property Course Handbook Series 335 (May 6, 1996).
Angela J. Campbell, Universal Service Provisions: The "Ugly Duckling" of the 1996 Act, 29 Conn. L. Rev. 187 (1996).
Jonathan E. Canis & Enrico C. Soriano, The Telecommunications Act of 1996: A Global Analysis, 4 CommLaw Conspectus 147 (1996).
Robert Cannon, The Legislative History of Senator Exon's Communications Decency Act: Regulating Barbarians on the Information Superhighway, 49 Fed. Comm. L.J. 51 (1996).
L. Frederik Cederqvist, The Telecommunications Act of 1996: Restructuring the Law and Refining National Policy, 440 PLI: Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks, and Literary Property Course Handbook Series 413 (May 6, 1996).
Jim Chen, The Last Picture Show (On the Twilight of Federal Mass Communications Regulation), 80 Minn. L. Rev. 1415 (1996).
Catherine Cook, The Telecommunications Act of 1996, 6 DePaul-LCA J. Art & Ent. L. 237 (1996).
Charles D. Ferris, Frank W. Lloyd, and Howard J. Symons. Guidebook to the Telecommunications Act of 1996; Matthew Bender & Co., Inc (1996); 298 pgs.
Henry Geller, The 1996 Telecom Act: Cutting the Competitive Gordian Knot, 29 Conn. L. rev. 205 (1996).
Allen S. Hammond, IV. The Telecommunications Act of 1996: Codifying the Digital Divide. 50 FCLJ 1 (December 1997).
Arthur H. Harding & Matthew D. Emmer, Cable Television Provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, 14 Comm. Law 11 (Summer 1996).
W. Scott Hastings, Note, Foreign Ownership of Broadcasting: The Telecommunications Act of 1996, 29 Vand. J. Transnat'l L. 817 (1996).
Thomas W. Hazlett, Explaining the Telecommunications Act of 1996: Comment on Thomas G. Krattenmaker, 29 Conn. L. Rev. 217 (1996).
Adrian Herbst. Developing Public Telecommunication Systems. Plug-in (Summer/Fall 1998). International City County Management Associations's Utility Restructureing and Competition Consortium.
Peter W. Huber, Michael K. Kellogg, and John Thorne. The Telecommunications Act of 1996: Special Report, Little, Brown & Co. (1996); 428 pages
Reed Hundt, Antitrust and Interconnection: Old Wine in New Bottles (Telecommunications Act of 1996), Address before the Antitrust Conference for Corporate General Counsels (Oct. 22, 1996), available in 1996 WL 646783.
Thomas G. Krattenmaker, The Telecommunications Act of 1996, 49 Fed. Comm. L.J. 1 (1996).1
Donna N. Lampert et al., An Overview of Video Competition Under the Telecommunications Act of 1996: Questions and Answers, 465 PLI: Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks, and Literary Property Course Handbook Series 49 (presented Dec. 12-13, 1996).
Lili Levi, Not With a Bang But a Whimper: Broadcast License Renewal and the Telecommunications Act of 1996, 29 Conn. L. Rev. 243 (1996).
Andrew D. Lipman & Lawrence R. Freedman, The Telecommunications Act's ADR Approach, 14 Alternatives to High Cost Litig. 123 (1996).
James E. Meadows, The Telecommunications Act of 1996: Rules of the Road for the New Highways, 13 No. 3 Computer Law. 1 (Mar. 1996).
Michael I. Meyerson, Ideas of the Marketplace: A Guide to the 1996 Telecommunications Act, 49 Fed. Comm. L.J. 251 (1997).
Nichole L. Millard, Section 254 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996: A Hidden Tax? 50 Fed. Comm. L.J. 1 (December 1997)
Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone, PLC. The Telecommunications Act of 1996: What It Means to Local Governments, National League of Cities (1996); 38 pages.
National Regulatory Research Institute (NRRI) Series on the 1996 Telecommunications Act (all 1996)
Vincent M. Paladini, Note, Foreign Ownership Restrictions Under Section 310(B) of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, 14 B.U. Int'l L.J. 341 (1996).
John D. Podesta, Unplanned Obsolescence: The Telecommunications Act of 1996 Meets the Internet, 45 DePaul L. Rev. 1093 (1996).
Glen O. Robinson, The "New" Communications Act: A Second Opinion, 29 Conn. L. Rev. 289 (1996).
Phillip Rosario & Mark F. Kohler, The Telecommunications Act of 1996: A State Perspective, 29 Conn. L. Rev. 331 (1996).
Kenneth D. Salomon et al., Implications of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 for Schools, Colleges, and Universities, 109 West's Educ. Law Rep. 1051 (1996).
Mark D. Schneider, Renewal Procedures and Expectancy Before and After the Telecommunications Act of 1996, 14 Comm. Law 9 (Summer 1996).
Matthew Spitzer, Dean Krattenmaker's Road Not Taken: The Political Economy of Broadcasting in the Telecommunications Act of 1996, 29 Conn. L. Rev. 353 (1996).
Lawrence A. Sullivan, Elusive Goals Under the Telecommunications Act: Preserving Long Distance Competition Upon Baby Bell Entry and Attaining Local Exchange Competition: We'll Not Preserve the One Unless We Attain the Other, 25 Sw. U. L. Rev. 487 (1996).
Margaret L. Tobey and Phoung N. Pham, The Broadcast Ownership Provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, 14 Comm. Law. 6 (Summer 1996).
Thirteen Attorneys General Submit Comments to FCC Regarding Telecommunications Act of 1996, 23 Nat'l Ass'n of Att'ys Gen.: Antitrust Rep. 6 (1996).
R. Clark Wadlow, Summary of the Key Provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, 440 PLI: Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks, and Literary Property Course Handbook Series 285 (May 6, 1996).
Dan Waggoner & Patricia Raskin, The Telecommunications Act of 1996: Model for Federal-State Conflict or Cooperation, 14 Comm. Law. 26 (Summer 1996).
Richard E. Wiley, The Telecommunications Act of 1996, 461 PLI: Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks, and Literary Property Course Handbook Series 7 (November 1996).2
Richard E. Wiley, Summary of Broadcast Ownership Provisions of S.652 - The Telecommunications Act of 1996 - As Passed by Congress on February 1, 1996, 440 PLI: Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks, and Literary Property Course Handbook Series 313 (1996).
Richard E. Wiley, Cable Related Provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, 440 PLI: Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks, and Literary Property Course Handbook Series 319 (May 6, 1996).
Richard E. Wiley and Paul E. Misener, Whither Goest NTIA? The Fate of a Federal Telecommunications Agency. 48 FCLJ 2 (March 1996).
Jennifer L. Worstell, Section 253 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996: A permanent Physical Appropriation of Private Property that Must be Justly Compensated" 50 Fed. Comm. L. J. 2 (March 1998).