“You don’t need to authorize this bill to get 5G technology,”
Mazzochi said during a recent House floor debate on the issue. “One of the key pieces of local control we took away from our municipalities was to tell our units of local government that they could not stop new poles from going up all over the place . Another thing this body didn’t know is real world experience of municipalities with new pole demands. . My district has been the pilot location for the entire state.”
Effective immediately, House Bill 2379 would seek to amend the Small Wireless Facilities Deployment Act to provide for the repeal of the measure by Dec. 31, 2026.
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Editor: While the state General Assembly made some headway in increasing access to high-speed broadband in the legislative session that ended Nov. 30, lawmakers missed an opportunity to spur the