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An application to build a cell phone tower near the corner of South 48th Street and Yakima Avenue is on hold following the discovery of another tower nearby.
The application, which is opposed by the South End Neighborhood Council, was placed on hold March 2, said Charla Heutinck, land use administration planner for the city.
The applicant, T-Mobile, must provide the city with a technical reason why the new tower cannot be co-located with the existing tower at 4818 South J Street, Heutinck said.
If the city has not heard from T-Mobile after 120 days, officials may close out the application, Heutinck said. So far, the city has not heard from T-Mobile, she said Thursday.
The South End Neighborhood Council objects to the location of the proposed tower in an empty lot next to the old Superior TV building, 4638 S. Yakima Ave., arguing that it poses a potential health risk because at 59-feet 11-inches it would not be tall enough to clear some of the surrounding homes.
We hear about babies starting out their lives with nothing, and our reflex is to help. Then the details get in the way. We're not sure what the infants need, or where to take it.
Tacoma Soroptimist Club and the Pierce County Division of Child & Family Services are offering us a way around that. They're sponsoring their fourth annual Community Baby Shower from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday, March 28, at Joeseppi's Restaurant, 2204 Pearl St.
Welcome gifts include disposable diapers, diaper bags, onesies and tees, socks, booties, clothes for babies from three to six months old, baby powder, soap, shampoo, wipes and diaper cream, pacifiers, baby bottles and baby toys. If you're tempted to wrap them, please spend the money on another binkie instead.
The gifts will go with babies bound for foster homes because their own families can' keep them safe and secure.
Anyone can just waltz in with a baby present, enjoy the ambiance, and go home feeling happier to have helped.
If you can't make it, Soroptimist International of Tacoma is accepting monetary gifts at PO Box 112151, Tacoma, WA, 98411. That gift is tax-deductible.
